Home › Words › I › infanteinfanteinfante means A surname from Spanish.EtymologyFrom Spanish.nameA surname from Spanish.nounAny son of the king of Spain or Portugal, sometimes except the eldest or heir apparent.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.infanta 83% match — The daughter of a king in Spain or Portugal. vs infante →dauphin 57% match — The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois. vs infante →prince 55% match — A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. vs infante →porphyrogeniture 54% match — the principle of royal succession in which the first son born after his father's accession to the throne has the first claim, even if he has older brothers who were born before the father's crowning. vs infante →fidalgo 53% match — A Portuguese nobleman. vs infante →childe 52% match — A child of noble birth. vs infante →infantine 52% match — Infantile; childish. vs infante →fernandine 52% match — Pertaining to Fernando vs infante →