cadet

See also: Cadet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈdɛt/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: ca‧det

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• air cadet
• cadet blue
• cadet branch
• cadetcy
• cadet gray
• cadet grey
• cadet house
• officer cadet
• space cadet

 

Related terms

• cadette

Translations

a student at a military school who is training to be an officer

• Albanian: kadet (sq) m, kadete f
• Arabic: تِمْلِيذ عَسْكَرِيّ m (timlīḏ ʕaskariyy), تِمْلِيذَة عَسْكَرِيَّة f (timlīḏa(t) ʕaskariyya)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: курсант m (kursant), курсантка f (kursantka); кадзет m (kadzjet), кадэт m (kadet), кадзетка f (kadzjetka), кадэтка f (kadetka)
• Bulgarian: каде́т m (kadét), ю́нкер m (júnker)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: kadet c
• Esperanto: kadeto sg
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kadetti (fi)
• French: cadet (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kadett (de) m, Offiziersanwärter (de) m
• Hungarian: kadéta, kadét (hu)
• Icelandic: kadett m
• Irish: dalta m, dalta airm m
• Italian: cadetto (it) m, allievo ufficiale m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: kariūnas m
• Macedonian: питомец m (pitomec)
• Maori: hōia tauira, tama hōia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kadett m

  Nynorsk: kadett m

• Persian: دانشجوی افسری (dânešju-ye afsari)
• Polish: kadet (pl) m
• Portuguese: cadete (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: курса́нт (ru) m (kursánt), каде́т (ru) m (kadét), ю́нкер (ru) m (júnker) (historical)
• Scottish Gaelic: òglach m
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: kadete
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

younger son

• Danish: yngre søn c
• French: puîné (fr) m
• German: jüngerer Bruder m, jüngerer Sohn m
• Italian: cadetto (it) m
• Walloon: racoulot (wa) m (from many children)

Further reading

• cadet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acted, ectad

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.dɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. (family) youngest

   le fils cadet ― the youngest son

Noun

cadet m (plural cadets)

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

Derived terms

• cadet des soucis de

Descendants

• → Czech: kadet
• → English: cadet
  • → Cebuano: kadete (with Spanish cadete)
• → Dutch: kadee, kadet
• → German: Kadett
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: кадет
    • Latin script: kadet
  • → Vilamovian: kadet
• → Finnish: kadetti
• → Indonesian: kadet
• → Italian: cadetto
• → Polish: kadet
• → Portuguese: cadete
• → Russian: кадет (kadet)
  • → English: Kadet
• → Scots: caddie
  • → English: caddie, caddy, cad
• → Spanish: cadete
  • → Cebuano: kadete (with English cadet)

See also

• benjamin

Further reading

• “cadet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cédât

Latin

Verb

cadet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of cadō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet.

Noun

cadet m (plural cadeți)

1. cadet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cadet	cadetul		cadeți	cadeții
genitive-dative	cadet	cadetului		cadeți	cadeților
vocative	cadetule			cadeților