child

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

1. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority, A person yet a toddler).

   “Go easy on him: he is but a child.”

   “Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.”

2. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority, A person yet a toddler).
3. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.

   “My youngest child is forty-three this year.”

   “His adult children visit him yearly.”

4. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
5. A figurative offspring

   “the children of Israel”

   “He is a child of his times.”

6. A figurative offspring

   “Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.”

7. A figurative offspring

   “The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.”

   “The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).”

8. Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
9. A subordinate node of a tree.
10. An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.

    “My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.”

11. A female child, a girl.

    “A boy, or a Childe I wonder?”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English childen, from the noun child.

1. To give birth; to beget or procreate.

   “My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.”

   “And from his fertill hollow wombe forth ran, (Clad in rare weedes and ſtrange habiliment) A Nymph, for age able to goe to man, An hundreth plants beſide (euen in his ſight) Childed an hundreth Nymphes, ſo great, ſo dight:[…]”