petite

Borrowed from French petite f, feminine of petit m (“small, little”).

• IPA^(key): /pəˈtiːt/

petite (comparative more petite, superlative most petite)

1. Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
2. Of women's clothing: of small size.
3. Small, little; insignificant; petty.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)

     The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

• petite perception

• petitely
• petiteness

• “petite” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

• Pettie, Piette

petite

1. past adverbial passive participle of peti

• IPA^(key): /pə.tit/, [pətit, ptit]
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /pə.tit/, [p(ə)tsɪt]

petite

1. feminine singular of petit

petite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of petō