petit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛti/, /pəˈtiː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdi/, /pəˈti/, /pəˈtit/

Borrowed from Old French petit. Doublet of petty.

petit (comparative more petit, superlative most petit)

1. (now uncommon, of size) Petite: small, little.
   • 1684 or 1685 February 22, Robert South, A Sermon preached at Westminster-Abbey:
     • And by what small, petit Hints does the Mind catch hold of, and recover a vanishing Notion?
2. Petty, in its various senses:
   1. (obsolete) Few in number.
   2. (now uncommon, of objects) Unimportant; cheap; easily replaced.
   3. (law, of scale) Small, minor.
   4. (now rare) Secondary; lower in rank.

• petite, petty

• puisne, puny

petit (plural petits)

1. (obsolete, usually in the plural) A little schoolboy.
2. (obsolete, rare) A kind of pigeon.

From French petit (“brevier”) directly or via German Petit (“brevier”).

petit (uncountable)

1. (printing, dated, French and German contexts) Synonym of brevier.

• Petti

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *pittitus, an expressive creation (with variant forms pitinnus, pitulus, piccinus, pitikkus, etc.). Compare French petit.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pəˈtit/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /peˈtit/

petit (feminine petita, masculine plural petits, feminine plural petites)

1. small, little

   Antonym: gros

• a les petites

• “petit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “petit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “petit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “petit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

petit

1. Second-person singular indicative past form of pettää.

• petti

From Old French petit, from Vulgar Latin pittitus (775; compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus), possibly from Celtic or Frankish. Compare Spanish pequeño.

• IPA^(key): /pə.ti/, /p.ti/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [p(ə)tsi]
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /pti/, /piti/, /ti/

petit (feminine singular petite, masculine plural petits, feminine plural petites)

1. small

   un petit verre de vin ― a small glass of wine

2. little

   un petit garçon ― a little boy

3. petty

   Certaines personnes sont vraiment petites à propos des plus petites choses.

   Some people are really petty about the smallest things.

Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative: petit (moindre, but in certain senses only), mauvais (pire) and bon (meilleur).

petit m (plural petits, feminine petite)

1. small one (anything that is small)
2. little one (anything that is little)
3. little one; child (of humans or other animals)
4. the young (of a species)

   Le petit du lapin s'appelle le "lapereau".

Often contracted, in popular or familiar speech, to p'tit (/pti/).

• mon petit
• petite bourgeoisie
• petit déjeuner
• petit pois
• petit récit, petits récits

• Portuguese: petiz

• “petit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

petit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of petō

From Old French petit.

petit m (feminine singular petite, masculine plural petitz, feminine plural petites)

1. small

• French: petit

petit m (plural petits, feminine singular petite, feminine plural petites)

1. something that is small

petit m (feminine singular petita, masculine plural petits, feminine plural petitas)

1. small

   Synonym: pichon

   Antonym: grand

• petitesa

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 743.

• peti, pitet

From Latin *pitittus (compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus).

petit m (oblique and nominative feminine singular petite)

1. small, little
2. worthless; valueless
3. poor; of poor quality

• English: petit, petty
• Middle French: petit
  • French: petit