petit
Old French
adj
Definitions
- small, little
- worthless; valueless
- poor; of poor quality
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *pitittus.
Origin
Latin
*pitittus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- petit English
- price English
- *pit- Latin
- *pitittus Latin
- *pittus, pittitus Latin
- *putinus Latin
- pitinnus Latin
- pittitus Latin
- putus Latin
- Petitjean French
- petiot French
- petit French
- petit filet French
- petit juif French
- petit nègre French
- petitement French
- petitesse French
- petitissime French
- tiot French
- pitiyanqui Spanish, Castilian
- *bew- Proto-Indo-European
- petiz Portuguese
- プチ Japanese
- プチプライス Japanese
- petit Middle English
- pety Middle English
- petti Faroese
- p'tit Norman
- petit Middle French
- *kʷezdis Proto-Celtic
- pichon Occitan
- pintg Romansh
- pitschen Romansh
- ti Haitian, Haitian Creole
- tipti Mauritian Creole
- ptit Walloon
- petiôt Franco-Provençal
- p'tit Picard