mid-14c., "trifling," from Old French petit "small, little, young, few in numbers" (11c.), probably from stem of Late Latin pitinnus "small," of uncertain origin; it corresponds to no known Latin form and perhaps is from a Celtic root pett- "part, piece, bit" also found in Italian pezza, English piece. Attested as a surname from 1086. Replaced by petty in most usages, except in established forms such as petit bourgeois "conventional middle-class" (1832; used in English by Charlotte Brontë earlier than by Marx or Engels); petit mal (1842, literally "little evil," mild form of epilepsy), and petit four (1884), which in French means "little oven," from Old French four "oven," from Latin furnus.
实用例句
1. He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
他有小资产阶级思想。
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2. The petit - fours and the melting ice are set before them.
花色小点心和果汁冰淇淋送上来了.
来自辞典例句
3. Arsenal's Emmanuel Petit, right, and teammate double - team Lens'Charles - Edouard Coridon.
阿森纳的佩蒂特, 右, 和队友 帕勒,夹击朗斯的科利登.
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4. Le beurre est toujours dans la cuisine , exception pour le petit d é jeuner.
黄油放在厨房,除了早餐拿上餐桌.
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5. She has been suffering from petit mal since childhood.