• Original language:French
  • Original form and meaning:cadet 'younger (brother,sister), junior'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch ... ... '...' '...' ...
English cadet 17th c. 1. 'a younger son or brother', a younger branch of a family, a member of a younger branch, the youngest son', 2. (a) 'a student in a military or naval college' (b) 'a boy in an ordinary school who receives military training with or without a view to entering the army, 3. 'a young man learning sheep-farming on a sheep-station' (a) 'a gentleman, who entered the army without a commission, to learn the military as profession and find a career for himself (as was regularly done by the younger sons of the French nobility before the Revolution', (b) 'a junior in the East India Company's service' OED
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Kadet 18th c., 20th c. 1. 'pupil of officer's school', 2. 'dressed-up man' (dial.), 3. 'young aristocrat in training to be an officer, nice man' (dial.), 4.'insult' (dial.), 5. 'prankster, unreliable person' (dial.) '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 130
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian cadetto 18th c. 'young aristocratic offspring' '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 130
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...

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