Unscramble

i 1 n 1 f 4 a 1 n 1 t 1 r 1 y 4

8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

originFrom Middle French infanterie, from older Italian, possibly from Spanish infantería (“foot soldiers, force composed of those too inexperienced or low in rank for cavalry”), from infante (“foot soldier”), originally "a youth", either way from Latin īnfāns (“child”); see there for more.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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