infanta

See also: Infanta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish infanta, Portuguese infanta, feminine of infante.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfantə/

Noun

infanta (plural infantas)

1. The daughter of a king in Spain or Portugal. [from 17th c.]
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 40:

     It was a dispatch intended specifically to communicate a sense of closure to the Spanish monarchs, to show that England possessed a dynasty fit for an infanta of Spain.

Related terms

• infante

Translations

Spanish daughter of a king

Italian: infante (it) f Khmer: អ្នកអង្គម្ចាស់ (km) (neak ong mjas) Polish: infantka (pl) f Portuguese: infanta (pt) f Slovak: infantka f Spanish: infanta (es) f

Anagrams

• anti-fan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [iɱˈfan.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱˈfan.ta]

Noun

infanta f (plural infantes)

1. infant, girl

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfan.ta/
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: in‧fàn‧ta

Verb

infanta

1. inflection of infantare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Etymology

Feminine of infante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ

Noun

infanta f (plural infantas)

1. princess, infanta (the daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal)

Related terms

• infante

Further reading

• “infanta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈinfanta]

Noun

infanta

1. genitive/accusative singular of infant

Spanish

Etymology

Feminine of infante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfanta/ [ĩɱˈfãn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: in‧fan‧ta

Noun

infanta f (plural infantas)

1. princess

   Synonym: princesa

Related terms

• infante

Further reading

• “infante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024