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INFANTRY , the collective name of soldiers who See also:march and fight on See also:foot and are armed with See also:hand-weapons. The word is derived ultimately from See also:Lat. infans, See also:infant, but it is not clear how the word came to be used to mean soldiers. The See also:suggestion that it comes from a guard or See also:regiment of a See also:Spanish infanta about the end of the 15th See also:century cannot be maintained in view of the fact that Spanish foot-soldiers of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time were called soldados and contrasted with See also:French fantassins and See also:Italian fanteria. The New See also:English See also:Dictionary suggests that a foot-soldier, being in feudal and See also:early See also:modern times the varlet or follower of a mounted See also:noble, was called a boy (cf. Knabe, garcon, See also:footman, &c., and see See also:VALET).
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