EuroLex/F/Petite
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- Original language: French
- Original form and meaning: petit 'small, little, narrow, young, humble'
(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)
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| English | petite | 1712, 1784, 1929, 1951 | 1. 'A variant of petit (used without reference to gender or sex)', 2. (a) 'Of a woman or girl: Little, of small stature, tiny', (b) 'used of small sizes in women's clothing' , 3. 'in certain French collocations often used in English, as petite ami, petite culture (small farming), petite marmite (soup of vegetables and meat served in a marmite), petite morale (minor morals, the ethics of everyday details), petite noblesse (the lesser nobility in France), petite pièce (a minor performance, in pl. the minor writings of an author),petite vitesse (slow train)', 4. 'used to designate certain variant strains of yeast that are characterized by the cytoplasmically heritable lack of mitchondrial constituents and tend to form small colonies' (biol.) | '...' | The Oxford English Dictionary: Second Edition, CLaredon Press, Oxford 1989, 632-633 |
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| German | petit | ... | 'small, delicate, little, nice' | '...' | Birken-Silvermann 2003: 134 |
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