infancy Copy link Outline 1. infantia (including childhood; till the age of seven)2. puerĭtia prīma, aetas iniens • infancy: 1. infantia (including childhood; till the age of seven): more precisely, prima inf., Tac. Ann. 1, 4. 2. puerĭtia prīma, aetas iniens: v. childhood, youth. Phr.: from i., a puerulo (a puero = from childhood, Cic. Fam. 13, 16); ab infante, Sen. Ir. 2, 5, 4: Col.: of numbers, ab infantibus, Cels. 7, 7, § 15, init.: as fig. expr., a teneris (ut Graeci aiunt) unguiculis, Cic. Fam. 1, 6; de tenero ungui, Hor. Od. 3, 6, 24.