中文词源
petit 小的，次要的
来自古法语petit,小的，不重要的，可能来自古凯尔特语*pett,小的，词源同piece,patch.
英语词源
- petit (adj.)
- 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 Brontë 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.
权威例句
- 1. He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
- 他有小资产阶级思想。
- 2. The petit - fours and the melting ice are set before them.
- 花色小点心和果汁冰淇淋送上来了.
- 3. Arsenal's Emmanuel Petit, right, and teammate double - team Lens'Charles - Edouard Coridon.
- 阿森纳的佩蒂特, 右, 和队友 帕勒,夹击朗斯的科利登.
- 4. Le beurre est toujours dans la cuisine , exception pour le petit d é jeuner.
- 黄油放在厨房,除了早餐拿上餐桌.
- 5. She has been suffering from petit mal since childhood.
- 她从小就患有癫痫病.