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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/, [p??t], [p???t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion". 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). Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Old Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European) origin. Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

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.)
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, 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

Synonyms

• companion animal

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

4. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)

5. (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.

Synonyms

• (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

Derived terms

• petting

Translations

Adjective

pet (not comparable)

1. Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.
   • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of petulance.

Noun

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 3

Clipping of petition.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

1. Abbreviation of petition.

Etymology 4

Clipping of petal.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

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

References

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

See also

• pet coke

Anagrams

• EPT, PTE, Pte, TPE, Tep, ept

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?p?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pet/

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (colloquial) fart

Related terms

• petar
• petat
• llufa f

Further reading

• “pet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bed.

Noun

pet

1. bed

   • Iwe upwe pw?r 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!"

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)

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

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: pet
• ? Indonesian: peci

Adjective

pet (comparative petter, superlative petst)

1. (slang) bad, crappy

Inflection

Derived terms

• naatje pet

Descendants

• ? Papiamentu: pèchi (from the diminutive)

French

Etymology

From Old French pet, inherited from Latin p?ditum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?/
• Homophones: pais, pait, paît, paix, paie, paies, pets
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /p?t/

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (colloquial) fart
2. (colloquial) (nonstandard) Common apocope for pétard (joint) (pronounced IPA^(key): /p?t/ in singular and plural). Rarely pèt.

Synonyms

• vesse

Derived terms

• comme un pet sur une toile cirée
• pet-de-nonne

Related terms

• péter

Further reading

• “pet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pectus.

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (anatomy) chest

See also

• sen

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t??]
• Hyphenation: pèt

Noun

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 reading

• “pet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle French

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/

Noun

pet m anim (diminutive pecik)

1. (colloquial) cigarette butt

   Synonyms: kiep, niedopa?ek

2. (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette

   Synonyms: papieros, fajek, szlug

Declension

Further reading

• pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pet.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p?t??/
  • Homophones: PET, patch

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

1. (Brazil, upper class slang) pet (animal kept as a companion)

   Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote

See also

• pet shop

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin pectus.

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

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

Related terms

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pê?t/, /pêt/

Numeral

p?t (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. five (5)

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *p?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pé?t/

Numeral

p??t

1. five

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pet

1. genitive dual/plural of peta

Westrobothnian

Noun

pet n

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Latin c?rtem (accusative of c?rs), ultimately from cohors. Doublet of cohort.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• Homophone: caught (non-rhotic with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art

     And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
   1. (US, Australia) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
2. (social) Royal society.
   1. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
   2. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
      • 1819-1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan

        Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.

   3. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
3. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
   • 1667, John Evelyn, Diary entry 18 April, 1667

     I went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.

4. (law) The administration of law.
   1. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

   2. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
   3. (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
   4. The session of a judicial assembly.

   5. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
5. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games
   1. one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
      • 2010, Cara Marcus, Faulkner Hospital

        The photograph at left captures a great serve by Dr. Sadowsky, who will never forget one of Bobby Riggs's serves, which had such a great spin that it landed in his court and bounced back to the other side of the net before he had a chance to return it.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Russian: ???? (kort) (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Verb

court (third-person singular simple present courts, present participle courting, simple past and past participle courted)

1. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
2. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
3. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
4. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.

5. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
6. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
7. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

   Synonyms: romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo

8. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.

9. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

   Synonyms: charm, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure

Translations

Further reading

• court on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Crout, Curto, Turco, Turco-, crout

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/
• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, cours, courts
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Adjective

court (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes)

1. short

Derived terms

Related terms

• accourcir
• écourter

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

court

1. third-person singular present indicative of courir

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English court.

Noun

court m (plural courts)

1. (tennis) court

Derived terms

• fond de court

Further reading

• “court” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• courte

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cort, curt.

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. court (place, building)

Descendants

• English: court

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cort, curt, etc.

Noun

court f (plural cours)

1. court (of law)
2. court (of a palace, etc.)

Descendants

• French: cour

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (court, supplement)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus (“shortened, short”).

Adjective

court m

1. (Jersey) short

Derived terms

• courtément (adverb)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus.

Adjective

court m (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes, feminine plural (before noun) courtès)

1. short