• IPA^(key): /ˈfan.te/
• Rhymes:-ante
• Hyphenation:fàn‧te

Apheretic form ofinfante(“child”), fromLatinīnfāns, īnfantem(“infant, child”).Doublet ofinfante.

fante m orfby sense (pluralfanti)

1. (military)infantryman
2. (card games)jack,knave
3. (obsolete)helper;servant

   Synonyms:garzone,servitore

   1. (loosely)lowly man
4. (obsolete, feminine)maid,domestic

   Synonyms:domestica,donna di servizio,fantesca(literary or jocular)

5. (obsolete)child

   Synonym:bambino

   1. (loosely)man

      Synonym:uomo

Playing cards in Italian ·carte da gioco(layout ·text)
asso	due	tre	quattro	cinque	sei	sette
otto	nove	dieci	fante	donna, regina	re	jolly,joker, matta

Learned borrowing fromClassical Latinfāns, fantem(“speaking, saying”), present participle offor(“I speak; I say”).

fante m orfby sense (pluralfanti)

1. (Old Italian, literary, veryrare)speaking,saying
   • 1310s,Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXV”, inPurgatorio [Purgatory], line61; republished asGiorgio Petrocchi, editor,La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence:publ.Le Lettere,1994:

     Ma come d’animal divegnafante,
     non vedi tu ancor: quest’è tal punto,
     che più savio di te fé già errante

     But you still do not see how a living being becomesone that speaks: this is a part that already led people wiser than you are into error

   • 1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Canto XXV [Canto 25]”, inCommento di Francesco da Buti sopra laDivina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri'sDivine Comedy]‎^[1],C. XXV— v. 61-79.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri,1858,page602:

     […] lo feto che è nel ventre de la madre,[…] è a modo d’un animale bruto; e se fusse possibile che nascesse così, serebbe come uno cane o come uno asino, che non parlerebbe e non arebbe in sè ragione; e qui pone l’autorefante perragionevile: imperò che niuno animale parla con intelletto se non l’omo, e peròfante si pone perragionevile

     […] the fetus, which is inside the mother's womb, is akin to a wild animal; if it were possible for it to be born as such, it would be as a dog, or a donkey, which would not talk, and would have no reasoning within itself; and here the author usesspeaking as "endowed with reason", for no animal—except for man—speaks with intellect. Therefore,speaking is used as "rational"

• nafte

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈfan.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈfan.te]

fante

1. ablativemasculine/feminine/neutersingular offāns

Borrowed fromItalianfante.

fante m (pluralfanți)

1. womanizer
2. (card games)jack

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