Wiktionary

pet

See also: PET, pët, pét, pêt, pět, pęt, and Pet.

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pɛt/, [pʰɛt], [pʰɛʔt]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • 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 Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin.[4] Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).

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

NounEdit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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, 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 and receives preferential treatment.
  4. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
    • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XIX, in Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
      At first she sat silent; but that could not last: she had resolved to make a pet of her little cousin, as she would have him to be; and she commenced stroking his curls, and kissing his cheek, and offering him tea in her saucer, like a baby.
    • 1711 January 1 (Gregorian calendar)​, Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Thursday, December 21, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 266; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:
      the love of cronies, pets, and favourites
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
  3. (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
    His daughter was petted and spoiled.
    • 1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21:
      […] the American dramatist has had to waste most of his first act elaborately planting the information that his Mister Quex is rich, petted by Society, and altogether more spectacular than the common run of men.
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
      He sure is queasie stomach't that must pet, and puke, at such a trivial circumstance
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

pet (not comparable)

  1. Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.
    a pet child
    The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory.
    • 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:
      Some young lady's pet curate.
    • 1875, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, page 141:
      Major Butler has a pet grievance and a pet aversion, which he forces on the reader in every chapter, and which becomes at last very wearisome.
    • 1991, Deborah G. Douglas, United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985, page 9:
      In an interview with Flying magazine, Heberding commented that her pet annoyance was "the reluctance of people generally to accept a woman whether as a pilot or a preflight inspector."
  2. Kept or treated as a pet.
    pet rock
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  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, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  4. ^ Schrijver, Peter (2000), “Non-Indo-European Surviving in Ireland in the First Millennium AD”, in Ériu‎[1], volume 51, →JSTOR, 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.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      His genius at this time was of a decidedly gloomy cast. He brought his mother a tragedy, in which, though he killed sixteen people before the second act, it made her laugh so, that he thrust the masterpiece into the fire in a pet.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 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.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      Buck Mulligan sat down in a sudden pet.

Etymology 3Edit

Clipping of petition.

NounEdit

pet (plural pets)

  1. Abbreviation of petition.

Etymology 4Edit

Clipping of petal.

NounEdit

pet (plural pets)

  1. (Ireland, Tyneside) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.

ReferencesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

AinuEdit

NounEdit

pet

  1. river

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Latin pēditum. Compare Occitan pet, French pet, Spanish pedo.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial) fart

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)

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

DescendantsEdit

  • → Caribbean Javanese: pèt
  • → Indonesian: pet, peci (from the diminutive)
  • → Papiamentu: pèchi, petsje (from the diminutive)

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

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old French pet, inherited from Latin pēditum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial) fart
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) Clipping of pétard.

Further readingEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pectus.

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (anatomy) chest

See alsoEdit

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch pet, probably from French toupet. Doublet of peci.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛt̪̚]
  • Hyphenation: pèt

NounEdit

pet (plural pet-pet, first-person possessive petku, second-person possessive petmu, third-person possessive petnya)

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

Further readingEdit

Middle FrenchEdit

NounEdit

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence

PolishEdit

 
pety

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pet m inan (diminutive pecik)

  1. (colloquial) cigarette butt
    Synonyms: kiep, niedopałek, ogarek
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette
    Synonyms: cygareta, fajek, fajka, kiep, kopeć, papieros, szlug

DeclensionEdit

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

Further readingEdit

  • pet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing 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

See alsoEdit

RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

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 numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: pet
    Ordinal: peti
    Multiplier: petostruk
    Collective: petoro, petorica
    Fractional: petina

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

pȇt (Cyrillic spelling пе̑т)

  1. five (5)

Usage notesEdit

  • Nouns following the numbers 5-20 are in genitive plural.

SloveneEdit

Slovene numbers
< 4 5 6 >

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

pẹ̑t

  1. five
InflectionEdit
Declension of pet (numeral)
nom. plur. [Term?]
gen. plur. [Term?]
plural
nominative pet
accusative pet
genitive petih
dative petim
locative petih
instrumental petimi

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

NounEdit

pet

  1. genitive dual/plural of peta

TàyEdit

Tày cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : pet

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Tai *peːtᴰ (“eight”), from Chinese 八 (MC pˠɛt̚, “eight”). Cognate with Thai แปด (bpɛ̀ɛt), Lao ແປດ (pǣt), Lü ᦶᦔᧆᧈ (ṗaed¹), Tai Dam ꪵꪜꪒ, Shan ပႅတ်ႇ (pèt), Tai Nüa ᥙᥦᥖᥱ (pǎet), Ahom 𑜆𑜢𑜄𑜫 (pit), Bouyei beedt, Zhuang bet.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

pet

  1. eight
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pet&oldid=73271885"