Where does “petit” come from?
Petit comes from Old French petit, from Latin pitittus, from Latin piccus, from Latin picus meaning "magpie," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- with the suffix -kos.
petit (English): Petite: small, little; Petty, in its various...
Definitions
- Petite: small, little; Petty, in its various...
Ancestry of “petit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | petit | — |
| 2 | Middle French | Petit | — |
| 3 | Old French | petit | small, little; worthless; valueless; poor; of... |
| 4 | Gallo-Romance | pitittus | — |