Adjective: petit
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | petit |
| Singular f. | petite |
| Plural m. | petits |
| Plural f. | petites |
Sample Sentences
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un petit verre de vin (a small glass of wine)
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un petit garçon (a little boy)
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Certaines personnes sont vraiment petites à propos des plus petites choses. (Some people are really petty about the smallest things.)
Adjectives inflected like petit
indifférent,
cohérent,
aspérifolié,
serein,
seyant,
second,
babillard,
savant,
satané,
satiné,
saturé,
défraîchi,
spaghettifié,
saoudi,
salaud,
salant,
sciant,
schleu,
évanescent,
écartelé, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French petit, from Vulgar Latin pittitus (775; compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus). Compare Spanish pequeño. See: Spanish Adjectives '
pequeño'.
Verbs referencing "petit"
English Adjectives
petty, Italian Adjectives
piccolo, Spanish Adjectives
pequeño, Italian Adjectives
piccino, Portuguese Adjectives
pequeno, Portuguese Adjectives
pititico.
Translations