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語源

Apparently borrowed from Anglo-Norman faunt, an apheretic form of or a back-formation from enfaunt, from Latin īnfāns, īnfantem; thus a doublet of infaunt. First attested in c. 1325.

発音

• IPA: /fau̯nt/, /fant/

名詞

faunt (plural fauntes) (poetic)

1. A baby or infant (almost always of a human)
2. (rare) A son or daughter.

参照

• “faunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “faunt, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.