Infantia, infantiæ, f. g. Plin. Childehoode: infancie: babeship.Infantia.Cic.Foolishnes: lacke of vtterance: lacke of eloquence or grace to tel his tale.Soluimus infantiam delicijs. Quin. Ab infantia, Vide AB.Infantia pomi. Plin. A yong apple.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
infantĭa, ae, f. [id.], inability to speak.I.Lit.: linguae, Lucr. 5, 1031.— B. In partic., want of eloquence: infantia ejus, qui rem norit, sed eam explicare dicendo non queat, Cic. de Or. 3, 35, 142: incredibilis accusatorum, id. Att. 4, 16, 8: infantiae in dicendo, Quint. 5, 13, 38. — II.Transf., infancy, early childhood: quantum in infantia praesumptum est temporis, adulescentiae acquiritur, Quint. 1, 1, 19: prima ab infantia,
from earliest infancy
, Tac. A. 1, 4: nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini, Juv. 3, 85.— Of animals, the youth, etc.: asini, Plin. 8, 44, 69, 171: cervi ab infantia educati, id. 10, 63, 83, 182.— Of inanim. things: sed est sua ?*!etiam studiis infantia, Quint. 1, 1, 21: pomi, Plin. 15, 19, 21, 80: vinum cum in infantia est, dulce, Macr. S. 7, 7.—2.Second childhood, childishness: cum voce trementia membra ... madidique infantia nasi, Juv. 10, 199. — B. Collect., the young, children: irritandae ad discendum infantiae, Quint. 1, 1, 26: surculi infantiae adalligati, Plin. 32, 2, 11, 24.