pet
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
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-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)
- An animal kept as a companion.
- (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.
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIX:
- 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.
- December 21, 1710, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 266
- the love of cronies, pets, and favourites
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIX:
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VerbEdit
pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted or (nonstandard) pet)
- (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
- (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
- His daughter was petted and spoiled.
- (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
- (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
SynonymsEdit
- (to stroke or fondle an animal): pat, smooth
- (to stroke or fondle amorously): feel up, grope, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
- (to treat as a pet): coddle, cosset; see also Thesaurus:pamper
- (to be peevish): mope, pout
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AdjectiveEdit
pet (not comparable)
- 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."
- Kept or treated as a pet.
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper, “pet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “pet” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “pet”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- ^ Schrijver, Peter, “Non-Indo-European Surviving in Ireland in the First Millennium AD”, in Ériu, volume 51, 2000, JSTOR 30008378, pages 195–199
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
pet (plural pets)
- 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.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 105:
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
pet (plural pets)
- Abbreviation of petition.
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
pet (plural pets)
- (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
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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)
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Further readingEdit
- “pet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
ChuukeseEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pet
- 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!"
- 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!"
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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NounEdit
pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)
- cap (headwear with a peak at the front)
DescendantsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pet (comparative petter, superlative petst)
InflectionEdit
Inflection of pet | ||||
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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
- IPA(key): /pɛ/
audio (file) - Homophones: pais, pait, paît, paix, paie, paies, pets
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /pɛt/
NounEdit
pet m (plural pets)
- (colloquial) fart
- (colloquial) (nonstandard) Common apocope for pétard (joint) (pronounced IPA(key): /pɛt/ in singular and plural). Rarely pèt.
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Further readingEdit
- “pet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
FriulianEdit
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NounEdit
pet m (plural pets)
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IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch pet, probably from French toupet. Doublet of peci.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pet (plural pet-pet, first-person possessive petku, second-person possessive petmu, third-person possessive petnya)
Further readingEdit
- “pet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Middle FrenchEdit
NounEdit
pet m (plural pets)
- (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pet m anim (diminutive pecik)
- (colloquial) cigarette butt
- Synonyms: kiep, niedopałek
- (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
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pet m (plural pets)
- (Brazil, upper class slang) pet (animal kept as a companion)
- Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote
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RomanschEdit
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EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pet m (plural pets)
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Serbo-CroatianEdit
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Cardinal : pet Ordinal : peti | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
pȇt (Cyrillic spelling пе̑т)
- five (5)
SloveneEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
pẹ̑t
InflectionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
NounEdit
pet
WestrobothnianEdit
NounEdit
pet n
- bad worker who does not get anything out of his hands completely done