petite
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French petite f, feminine of petit m (“small, little”).
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Adjective edit
petite (comparative more petite, superlative most petite)
- (especially of a woman) Fairly short and of slim build.
- (clothing) Of small size; intended for small-framed adult women.
- Small, little; insignificant; petty.
- 1662, Galileo Galilei, translated by Thomas Salisbury, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:
- 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?
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Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build
of women's clothing: of small size
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small, little; insignificant; petty
Noun edit
petite (plural petites)
- (genetics) A mutant first discovered in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, forming small colonies when grown in the presence of fermentable carbon sources such as glucose.
- 2005, Giorgio Bernardi, Structural and Evolutionary Genomics, page 39:
- The primary structure of the mitochondrial genomes of these petites had been previously determined […]
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “petite”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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petite
- past adverbial passive participle of peti
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petite
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petite
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