INFANCY Copy link • INFANCYprima aetas: prima aetatis tempora (general term): infantia: infantiae anni (the time when the child cannot, or can but just speak): pueritia: aetas puerilis (boyhood): from infancy, a prima (or ab ineunte) aetate; a prima infantia (Tac., Ann., 1, 4, 3): ab initio aetatis; a primis aetatis temporibus; a parvo or parvulo: a puero (and in plur., a parvis or parvulis, a pueris, of several, or if one speaks of himself in the plur.); a teneris, ut Graeci dicunt, unguiculis (translation of the Greek ἐξ ἁπαλῶν ὀνύχων, only in epistolary style of Cic., Fam., 1, 6, extr.). To die in his infancy, in cunis occidere (Cic., Tusc., 1, 39, 93). IMPROPR., In the sense of imperfect state: e.g., of arts, etc., prima initia, plur.: incunabula, or quasi or velut incunabula (the cradle; e.g., of the oratorical art, de oratoris quasi incunabulis, Cic.; ab ipsis dicendi velut incunabulis, Quint.).