-ette

ette English Pronunciation en /-ɛt/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--ette.wav Southern England en -et Etymology 1 en diminutive suffix :inh enm:-ette<ety:bor<fro:-ete<alt:-ette>>> :la 1 Suffix productive suffixes noun-forming suffixes en diminutive en diminutive Used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something. en -cule -ee<id:diminutive> -el -et -icle -ie -kin -le<id:diminutive> -let -ling -ole -ule -y ; mini- micro- nano- en cigar cigarette en disk diskette en kitchen kitchenette en female Used to form nouns meaning or implying the female equivalent of. en bachelor bachelorette en drum major drum majorette en ranger Rangerette en smurf w:Smurfette en imitation Used to form nouns meaning an imitation or substitute of something. en leather leatherette en Polari en Polari Used to form nouns with a Polari context or an association with gay subculture. en 1967 Gaslight Son of Flicker w:Round the Horne w:Barry Took; w:Marty Feldman w:Kenneth Williams Sandy You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface. en 2002 The Sins Of Their Fathers Eastend Trilogy 1 w:Gilda O'Neill 'Shame, eh, my little cherry? I was really bonar for him and all. It'll be a lonely old arthur for me tonight as usual. Ah well, let's have another little drinkette then, shall we? And perhaps, Poppett,' he sighed histrionically. 'I'll learn to keep my queeny old polari for them what appreciates it. Or for them what admintsadmits it,' Synonyms diminutive affix en mini-, en micro-, en nano-, en -ee, en -y, en -icle/en -cule/en -ule/en -ole female affix en -a, en -ess, en -ine, en -ress, en she-, en -trix Antonyms diminutive en super-, en supra-, en hyper-, en ultra-, en uber-, en macro-, en arch-, en over-, en mega-, en giga-, en -zilla, en grand, en great female affix en he- Derived terms en diminutive en female en imitation en Etymology 2 en hair color :bf brunette + 1 Suffix productive suffixes noun-forming suffixes en hair en chiefly fiction Used to form nouns and adjectives signifying a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color. en purple purplette en raven ravenette Derived terms en hair Related terms en bluenette gingette See also en -et -let Further reading Anagrams en eett teet French fr :der -et Pronunciation Suffix fr suffix masculine -et f fr diminutive fr -et diminutive suffix fr jupe<g:f> -ette jupette fr maison<g:f> -ette maisonnette fr vache<g:f> -ette vachette fr female forming female equivalents fr gnome<g:m> -ette gnomette fr Henri<g:m> -ette Henriette fr lévrier<g:m> -ette levrette Derived terms fr diminutive fr female fr fr diminutive suffixes Hungarian Pronunciation Etymology 1 From hu -ett -e past-tense suffix third-person singular suffix y. Suffix hu suffix hu personal hu past-tense suffix Forms the third-person singular past tense of verbs (definite conjugation). hu szerkeszt to edit szerkesztette he/she (has/had) edited it hu vetít to project vetítette he/she (has/had) projected it hu vet to sow vetette he/she (has/had) sowed/sown it hu participle hu verbal-participle suffix Forms the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun. hu jelent to present → hu jelentette [kalózok] jelentette [veszély] [the danger] presented by [pirates] pirates-presented danger Usage notes Etymology 2 From hu -et -t -e causative suffix past-tense suffix third-person singular suffix y. Suffix hu suffix hu causative hu past-tense causative suffix Forms the third-person singular causative past tense of verbs (definite conjugation), used with val y, e.g. hu vele, hu velük etc., otherwise coinciding with the above forms. hu fest to paint festette he/she/it had someone paint (it/them) hu megért to understand megértette he/she/it made someone understand (it/them) hu Megértette velük, hogy nem tehetnek ilyet. She made them understand that they couldn't do such a thing. hu szerkeszt to edit szerkesztette he/she had someone edit (it/them) hu Velünk szerkesztette az újságját. He had us edit his newspaper. Usage notes Etymology 3 Suffix hu suffix hu obsolete yhu suffixes with archaic senses hu -ve adverbial participle, approx. a- as in en asleep, awake, alive etc.; it was possible to add a personal suffix afterwards hu émik to wake up, to be/keep awake -ette émette, imette, émetten, imetten, émett, imett, ímett awake keeping awake hu beszél to speak -ette beszélette while speaking hu éhezik to starve -ette éhezette while starving hu él to live to live -ette élette (while) alive hu elmegy to go away, leave -ette elmenette on leaving hu felkel to get up, to rise -ette felkelette while/on getting up hu jön to come -ette jövette on coming hu ül to sit -ette ülette while sitting Usage notes Variants: -atta was added to most back-vowel verbs -ette was added to most front-vowel verbs -ta was added to certain back-vowel verbs (e.g. hu haragszik (haragudni) → haragudta) -te was added to certain front-vowel verbs (e.g. hu nevet → nevette, tesz → tette) See also :Category:Hungarian verb forms Appendix:Hungarian suffixes Further reading hu terms with multiple lemma etymologies terms with multiple morpheme etymologies Italian Etymology 1 Pronunciation -étte Suffix it suffix used with a stem to form the third-person singular past historic of regular it -ere verbs. it -é Etymology 2 Pronunciation -étte Suffix it suffix form it -etto Middle French Etymology frm :inh fro:-ete<id:diminutive suffix> diminutive suffixe + Suffix frm suffix frm -et Derived terms frm Descendants fr -ette Old English Pronunciation -ette Suffix ang suffix form ang -ettan 1 s pres//pret indc ; 3 s pret indc ; s pres//pret subj Old French Suffix fro suffix fro late Old French Old Northern French fro -ete