From en.wiktionary.org:
[infinité]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en] and its etymon [en], from [la] + [la] + the perfect
passive participle ending [la].[1][2][3] [en]. [en]. Displaced native [ang].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Indefinably large , countlessly great; immense . [from 14th c.]
2. * [chapter=40]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1735 | author=Henry Brooke | title=Universal Beauty
|passage=Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation
with infinity; for whatever is less than INFINITE is still infinitely distant
from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot
sink.}}
1. * [act=1]
2. * [book=9]
3. Boundless , endless , without end or limits; innumerable . [from 15th c.]
4. * [Psalms]
5. [en] Infinitely many . [from 15th c.]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Helen Donelan; Karen Kear; Magnus Ramage | title=Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader
|passage=Huxley's theory says that if you provide INFINITE monkeys with
infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a
masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic
treatise by Adam Smith.}}
1. [en] Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude ; limitless . [from 17th c.]
2. [en] Having infinitely many element s.
3. * {{ quote-web | 1=en | year=2009 | author=Brandon C. Look | title=Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory | site=www.uky.edu/~look | url=http://www.uky.edu/~look/Phi520-Lecture7.pdf | accessdate=2012-11-20 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619043710/http://www.uky.edu/~look/Phi520-Lecture7.pdf | archivedate=19 June 2018
|passage=For any INFINITE set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at
least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence
between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers,
which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.}}
1. [en] Not limited by person or number . [from 19th c.]
2. [en] Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon , also called perpetual fugue s, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings. [4]
**** Usage notes
Although the term is incomparable in the precise sense, it can be comparable
both in mathematics and set theory to compare different degrees of infinity,
and informally to denote yet a larger thing.
Poets (and particularly hymn-writers before the 20th century) would commonly
rhyme the word as though pronounced [-ɑɪnɑɪt] and church congregations still
on occasion adopt that pronunciation.
**** Antonyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Hyponyms
- [set theory] [en]
- [set theory] [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|biinfinite|infinifat|infinigon|infiniteness|infinitillion|infinitism|infinitist|infinitize|infiniverse|noninfinite|pseudoinfinite|superinfinite
|bi-infinite|doubly infinite|in one's infinite wisdom|infinite continued
fraction|infinite descent|infinite monkey theorem|infinite regress|infinite
series|infinite suicide|infinite canon|infinite hotel paradox|semi-infinite
|infinite loop |infinitely|infinite runner |infinite recursion |infinite
scroll |infinitesimal |infinitude |infinity|infinite-dimensional |infinitate
}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[figuratively, very large]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[boundless, endless]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[with plural noun: infinitely many]
- French: [fr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[greater than any positive quantity or magnitude]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg] [literally]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[having infinitely many elements]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[grammar: not limited by person or number]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[music: capable of endless repetition] [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Arabic: [ar]
- German: [de]
- Latin: [la]
- Mandarin: [cmn]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Numeral
[en]
1. Infinitely many.
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Something that is infinite in nature .
2. * [pages=34–35]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=Teun Koetsier; Luc Bergmans | title=Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study | page=449
|passage=Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these INFINITES,
and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.}}
1. [en] A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=Adam Deats; Joe Epstein | title=Virtua Fighter 5 | page=14
|passage=[...] prevents overpowered combos and INFINITES [...]}}
*** References
References:
[1]. [entry=infī̆nī̆t(e]
[2]. [pos= _adj._ , _adv._ , and _n._]
[3]. [pos=adj]
[4]. 1852 , John Weeks Moore, _Complete Encyclopædia of Music_
[en]
** Italian
*** Pronunciation
[infinìte]
*** Adjective
[it]
1. [it]
** Latin
*** Pronunciation
- [īnfīnīte]
*** Adjective
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:Elementary Lewis]
- [R:Gaffiot]