# pet
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛt/, [pʰɛt], [pʰɛʔ], [pʰɛʔt]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### 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 Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin. Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

#### Noun

Picture dictionary :
pet :
* canarycanary
* catcat
* dogdog
* goldfishgoldfish
* guinea pigguinea pig
* hamsterhamster
* parakeetparakeet
* parrotparrot
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 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 favouritesThe spelling has been modernized.

##### Synonyms

* companion animal

##### Derived terms

* crazy as a pet coon
* digital pet
* pet carrier
* pet cemetery
* pet cone
* pet door
* pet flap
* pet hotel
* pet humanization
* pet insurance
* pet lamp-shade
* pet play
* pet shop
* petsit
* pet stain
* pet store
* pet tag
* pet therapy
* pocket pet
* teacher's pet
* tea pet
* virtual pet

##### Translations
#### Verb

pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted or (colloquial) pet)
* (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
    I really love to pet cute puppies.
* (transitive, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
    We started petting each other the moment we were alone.
** 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    We kissed & petted for about 15 mins & he still wasn't hard, altho he acted like he was enjoying himself.
* (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.
* (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
* (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

##### 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

* pet the kitty
* petting

##### Translations
#### Adjective

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.
    pet rock
* (obsolete) Good; ideal.
** 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:“Now,” said Hands, “look there; there’s a pet bit for to beach a ship in. Fine flat sand, never a cat's paw, trees all around of it, and flowers a-blowing like a garding on that old ship.”

##### Derived terms

* pet form
* pet hate
* pet name
* pet peeve
* pet phrase
* pet rock

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* 1 2 3 “pet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* 1 2 3 “pet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* ↑ Schrijver, Peter (2000) “Non-Indo-European Surviving in Ireland in the First Millennium AD”, in Ériu‎, volume 51, →JSTOR, pages 195-199

### Etymology 2

Clipping of petulance.

#### Noun

pet (plural pets)
* 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.

#### Verb

pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted)
* To be petulant or upset; to have a problem with.
** 2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:Got suttin' in the glove compartment and I won't pet to use it

### Etymology 3

Clipping of petition.

#### Noun

pet (plural pets)
* Abbreviation of petition.

### Etymology 4

Clipping of petal.

#### Noun

pet (plural pets)
* (Ireland, Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.

#### References

* Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “pet”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

### See also

* pet coke (etymologically unrelated)
* red vet pet (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* EPT, PTE, Pte, TPE, Tep, ept

## Ainu
### Noun

pet
* river

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈpɛt]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈpət]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpet]

### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (colloquial) fart

#### Derived terms

* espetegar
* petar
* petarrell
* petat
* repetell

### See also

* llufa f

### References

* “pet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chuukese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bed.

### Noun

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!"

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pet
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)
* cap (headwear with a peak at the front)

#### Descendants

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

### Adjective

pet (comparative petter, superlative petst)
* (slang) bad, crappy

#### Derived terms

* naatje pet

#### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: pèchi (from the diminutive)

## French
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French pet, inherited from Latin pēditum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛ/
** Audio:(file)
** Homophones: paie, paient, paies, pais, paît, paix, pets
* (Quebec, informal) IPA: /pɛt/
** Homophones: pète, pètent, pètes, pets

#### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (colloquial) fart
    Synonym: vesse

##### Derived terms

* comme un pet sur une toile cirée
* pet foireux
* pet vaginal
* pet-de-nonne

##### Related terms

* péter

### Etymology 2

See the main lemma.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛt/
* Homophones: pète, pètent, pètes, pets

#### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (colloquial, nonstandard) Clipping of pétard.

### Further reading

* “pet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin pectus.

### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (anatomy) chest

#### See also

* sen

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛt̪̚]
* Hyphenation: pèt

### Noun

pet (plural)
* cap (headwear with a peak at the front)
    Hypernym: topi

### Further reading

* “pet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

pet
* Romanization of ꦥꦼꦠ꧀

## Middle French
### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Syllabification: pet

### Noun

pet m inan (diminutive pecik)
* (colloquial) cigarette butt
    Synonyms: kiep, niedopałek, ogarek
* (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette
    Synonyms: cygareta, fajek, fajka, kiep, kopeć, papieros, szlug

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pet.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛt͡ʃ/, /ˈpɛ.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛt͡ʃ/, /ˈpɛ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛt͡ʃ/
* Homophones: PET, patch

### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (Brazil) pet (animal kept as a companion)
    Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote

#### Derived terms

* mãe de pet
* pai de pet

#### Related terms

* pet shop

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

From Latin pectus.

### Noun

pet m (plural pets)
* (Puter, Vallader, anatomy) chest, thorax

#### Related terms

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pêːt/, /pêt/
* Audio (Serbia):(file)

### Numeral

pȇt (Cyrillic spelling пе̑т)
* five (5)

#### Usage notes

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

#### Related terms

* petokraka
* crvena petokraka

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /péːt/
* Rhymes: -eːt
* Hyphenation: pet
* Homophone: ped

#### Numeral

pẹ̑t
* five

##### Declension

* less common

#### Noun

pẹ̑t n
* number five

##### Declension

To express dual and plural, the phrase število pet 'number five' is used, e.g. dve števili pet sta napisani, or, informally, also petka.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛ́ːt/
* Rhymes: -ɛːt
* Hyphenation: pet

#### Noun

pȇt
* genitive dual/plural of peta

### Further reading

* “pet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “pet”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references