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infantes

infantes is a Latin form of infans, meaning “unable to speak; (noun) infant, small child; (infantia) infancy”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine or present active participle accusative plural feminine or present active participle nominative plural masculine or present active participle vocative plural masculine.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.71: … ae, si tota oratio nostra omnem sibi fidem sensibus confirmat, id est incorruptis atque integris testibus, si infantes pueri, mutae etiam bestiae paene loquuntur magistra ac duce natura nihil esse prosperum nisi voluptatem, nihi …

Martial, Epigrammata 6.70.11: Infantes sumus, et senes videmur.

All forms of infans (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.