petit

Etymology 1
From, from , from , diminutive of , possibly from. Compare also 🇨🇬,. .

Adjective

 * 1)  Petite: small, little.
 * 2) * 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?
 * 1) Petty, in its various senses:
 * 2)  Few in number.
 * 3)  Unimportant; cheap; easily replaced.
 * 4)  Small, minor.
 * 5)  Secondary; lower in rank.

Noun

 * 1)  A little schoolboy.
 * 2)  A kind of pigeon.

Etymology 2
From directly or via.

Etymology
, an creation (with variant forms, , , pitikkus, etc.). Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) small, little

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) little

Etymology
, from (775; compare 🇨🇬, ). Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) small
 * 2) little
 * 3) petty
 * 1) little
 * 2) petty
 * 1) petty

Usage notes
Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative: petit (, but in certain senses only),  and.

Noun

 * 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)

Usage notes
Often contracted, in popular or familiar speech, to.

Etymology
From, from 🇨🇬. See Modern 🇨🇬, above. Attested from at least the 13th century, with use in names earlier.

Adjective

 * 1) small

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) small

Noun

 * 1) something that is small

Adjective

 * 1) small

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬, ), which according to Watkins is of  origin.

Adjective

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