different between miniature vs petite

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin mini? (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n(?)?t??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n(i)?t???/, /?m?n(i)?t????/

Noun

miniature (plural miniatures)

1. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
2. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.

3. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
4. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
5. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
6. A musical composition which is short in duration.

7. (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
8. (role-playing games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.

9. Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
10. A particular feature or trait.

Derived terms

• miniaturist
• mini-
• mini

Translations

Adjective

miniature (comparative more miniature, superlative most miniature)

1. Smaller than normal.

Derived terms

• miniature poodle
• miniaturism

Translations

Verb

miniature (third-person singular simple present miniatures, present participle miniaturing, simple past and past participle miniatured)

1. (transitive) To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian miniatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nja.ty?/

Noun

miniature f (plural miniatures)

1. miniature
2. (computing) thumbnail (a miniature preview of a larger image)

Synonyms

• (thumbnail): vignette, aperçu

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

miniature f

1. plural of miniatura

Anagrams

• minuteria
• ruminiate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French petite f, feminine of petit m (“small, little”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ti?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Adjective

petite (comparative more petite, superlative most petite)

1. (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build.
2. (clothing) of small size.
3. Small, little; insignificant; petty.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)

     The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?

Derived terms

• petite perception

Related terms

• petitely
• petiteness

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “petite”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Pettie, Piette

Esperanto

Adverb

petite

1. past adverbial passive participle of peti

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p(?).tit/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /p(?).tit/, /p(?).t?s?t/

Adjective

petite

1. feminine singular of petit

Latin

Verb

petite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pet?