infantería
/infanteˈɾia/ · B2 · noun · f
infantry
🪖 infantería = infant + -ería: foot soldiers, the 'youngest' troops on foot
From Italian infante, 'youth, foot soldier', from Latin infans, 'not speaking'. Young attendants and junior soldiers marched on foot, so the word came to mean foot soldiers. Link infant to infantería: both come from the same root.