Infant vs Tot - What's the difference?
infant | tot | Related terms |
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
(legal) A minor.
(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
* Milton
A small child.
A measure of spirits, especially rum.
* 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
* 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party
(UK, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.
To sum or total.
Infant is a related term of tot.
As nouns the difference between infant and tot
is that infant is a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention while tot is thunder.As a verb infant
is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.infant
English
(wikipedia infant)Alternative forms
* infaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
See also
* sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonateVerb
(en verb)- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
tot
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- He learned to run when he was just a tot .
- Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
- And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
- (Halliwell)