mid-14c., "trifling," from Old French petit "small, little, young, few in numbers" (11c.), probably from stem of Late Latin pitinnus "small," of uncertain origin; it corresponds to no known Latin form and perhaps is from a Celtic root pett- "part, piece, bit" also found in Italian pezza, English piece. Attested as a surname from 1086. Replaced by petty in most usages, except in established forms such as petit bourgeois "conventional middle-class" (1832; used in English by Charlotte Bront? earlier than by Marx or Engels); petit mal (1842, literally "little evil," mild form of epilepsy), and petit four (1884), which in French means "little oven," from Old French four "oven," from Latin furnus.
雙語例句
1. He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
他有小資產(chǎn)階級思想。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The petit - fours and the melting ice are set before them.
花色小點心和果汁冰淇淋送上來了.
來自辭典例句
3. Arsenal's Emmanuel Petit, right, and teammate double - team Lens'Charles - Edouard Coridon.
阿森納的佩蒂特, 右, 和隊友 帕勒,夾擊朗斯的科利登.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. Le beurre est toujours dans la cuisine , exception pour le petit d é jeuner.
黃油放在廚房,除了早餐拿上餐桌.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. She has been suffering from petit mal since childhood.