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pet

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pɛt/, [pʰet]
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  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1Edit

Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion".[1][2][3] From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs).[2][3] Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Old Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Proto-Indo-European) origin.[4] Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).

The verb is derived from the noun.[2][3]

NounEdit

 
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pet (plural pets)

  1. An animal kept as a companion.
  2. (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
    • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale (video game), Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
      Papyrus: This is my brother's pet rock. He always forgets to feed it. As usual, I have to take responsibility.
  3. One who is excessively loyal to a superior.
  4. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
    • Tatler:
      the love of cronies, pets, and favourites
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TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit

pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted or (nonstandard) pet)

  1. (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
  2. (transitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
  3. (intransitive, informal) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
  4. (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
    His daughter was petted and spoiled.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
  6. (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
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AdjectiveEdit

pet (not comparable)

  1. Favourite; cherished.
    a pet child
    The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory.
    • (Can we date this quote?) F. Harrison
      Some young lady's pet curate.
  2. Kept or treated as a pet.
    pet rock
TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “pet” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “pet” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “pet” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
  4. ^ Schrijver, Peter (2000), “Non-Indo-European Surviving in Ireland in the First Millennium AD”, in Ériu, volume 51, JSTOR 30008378, pages 195–199

Etymology 2Edit

Clipping of petulance.

NounEdit

pet (plural pets)

  1. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 105:
      There was something ludicrous, even more, unbecoming a gentleman, in leaving a friend's house in a pet, with the host's reproaches sounding in his ears, to be matched only by the bitterness of the guest's sneering retorts.

Etymology 3Edit

Clipping of petition.

NounEdit

pet (plural pets)

  1. Abbreviation of petition.

Etymology 4Edit

Clipping of petal.

NounEdit

pet (plural pets)

  1. (Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.

ReferencesEdit

  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

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AnagramsEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan pet), from Latin pēditum (compare French pet, Spanish pedo, Italian peto).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial) fart

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ChuukeseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bed.

NounEdit

pet

  1. bed
    • 2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Luke 5:24, page 110:
      Iwe upwe pwȧr ngeni kemi pwe mi wor an ewe Noun Aramas manamanen omusano tipis won fonufan. Iwe a apasa ngeni ewe mwan mi mwök, 'Upwe erenuk, kopwe uta, kopwe eki om na pet o feinno non imwom!"
      Therefore I will show you that the Son of Man has the power of forgiving sins on earth. So he said to the sick man, 'I tell you, stand, grab your bed and go to your house!"

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)

  1. cap (headwear with a peak at the front)

AdjectiveEdit

pet (comparative petter, superlative petst)

  1. (slang) bad, crappy

InflectionEdit

Inflection of pet
uninflected pet
inflected pette
comparative petter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial pet petter het petst
het petste
indefinite m./f. sing. pette pettere petste
n. sing. pet petter petste
plural pette pettere petste
definite pette pettere petste
partitive pets petters —

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • → Papiamentu: pèchi (from the diminutive)

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French pet, inherited from Latin pēditum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial) fart
  2. (colloquial) Common apocope for pétard (pronounced IPA(key): /pɛt/ at singular and pluriel). Rarely pèt.

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Further readingEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pectus.

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (anatomy) chest

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Middle FrenchEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m anim

  1. (colloquial) cigarette butt
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette

DeclensionEdit

declension of pet
singular plural
nominative pet pety
genitive peta petów
dative petowi petom
accusative peta pety
instrumental petem petami
locative pecie petach
vocative pecie pety

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English pet.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (Brazil, upper class slang) pet (animal kept as a companion)
    Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote

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RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
  • (Sutsilvan) péz

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pectus.

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (Puter, Vallader, anatomy) chest, thorax

Related termsEdit

  • (Rumantsch Grischun) sain
  • (Sursilvan) sein
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Serbo-Croatian cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : pet
    Ordinal : peti

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

pȇt (Cyrillic spelling пе̑т)

  1. five (5)

SloveneEdit

Slovene numbers
< 4 5 [[šest
  1. Slovene|6 >]]

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

pẹ̑t

  1. five

InflectionEdit

Declension of pet (numeral)
plural
nominative pet
accusative pet
genitive petih
dative petim
locative petih
instrumental petimi

WestrobothnianEdit

NounEdit

pet n

  1. bad worker who does not get anything out of his hands completely done
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