Infanta vs Princess - What's the difference?
infanta | princess |
The daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p, 40:
A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter.
* 1872 , George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
A woman or girl who excels in a given field or class.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.12:
The wife of a prince; the female ruler of a principality.
A young girl; used as a term of endearment.
(derogatory, chiefly, US) A young girl or woman considered vain, spoiled or selfish; a prima donna.
A tinted crystal marble used in children's games.
A type of court card in the Tarot pack, coming between the 10 and the prince (Jack).
A female lemur.
As nouns the difference between infanta and princess
is that infanta is the daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal while princess is a female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter.As a proper noun Princess is
the title of a princess.infanta
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
princess
English
(wikipedia princess)Noun
(es)- She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age.
- And running all with greedie ioyfulnesse / To faire Irena, at her feet did fall, / And her adored with due humblenesse, / As their true Liege and Princesse naturall [...].
- Princess''' Grace was the '''Princess of Monaco.
- You're a real princess .