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by norgie
1116 days ago
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> The term “infantry” derives from “infant" No, it doesn't, do they both words do (eventually) trace back to the same Latin root. > Five hundred years later, infantrymen remain the most disposable of troops. But in Ukraine they are also the most essential Infantry being essential describes every war. |
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So it does. "Derives" does not imply a single step.
1570s, from French infantrie, infanterie (16c.), from older Italian or Spanish infanteria "foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank to be cavalry," a collective noun from infante "foot soldier," originally "a youth," from Latin infantem (see infant). [1]
[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/infantry