cadet

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (small head). Attested in English from 1634.[1][2]

Doublet of caddie, cadel, capital, capitellum, caudillo, and Kadet.

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Noun

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cadet (plural cadets)

  1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  2. (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: [], volume II, London: [] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 114:
      Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.
  3. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
    a cadet branch of the family
  4. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
  5. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
  6. (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.

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References

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  1. ^ cadet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cadet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (small head). Doublet of chapiteau, cadeau, and caudillo.

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Adjective

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cadet (feminine cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)

  1. (family) youngest
    le fils cadetthe youngest son

Noun

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cadet m (plural cadets)

  1. cadet, student officer
  2. junior sportsperson, young player
  3. a younger sibling

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Latin

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Verb

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cadet

  1. third-person singular future active indicative of cadō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French cadet.

Noun

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cadet m (plural cadeți)

  1. cadet

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