Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A dialectal variant of at.
- A suffix of French or other Romance origin, properly diminutive in force, as in billet, billet, bullet, fillet, hatchet, islet, jacket, locket, mallet, pallet, pullet, ticket, etc. In most words of this sort the diminutive force is but slightly or not at all felt in English, and it is no longer used as an English formative, except as in -let. In summit this diminutive suffix appears as -it. In some words, as gannet, hornet, perhaps linnet, etc., -et is of Anglo-Saxon origin.
- A suffix of Latin origin, another form of -ate, -ad, as in ballet, sallet, sonnet, etc. Compare the doublets ballad, salad, sonata.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From French et, in turn from Latin et (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[34] See Matthiæ, who explains it: "_me et supplicem_, qui mortem deprecetur, _et fortem_, qui mortem contemnat, _dicere licet_.”
“[20] Jules Simon: _Etudes sur la Théodicée de Platon et d'Aristote_, p. 88, _et al. _; Davidson: _Theism and Human Nature_, p. 45.”
“The idiom is different from the _et pudet et_ construction seen at xv 29 'et pudet et metuo [' I am both embarrassed and afraid '] semperque eademque precari' and _Tr_ V vii 57-58 'et pudet et fateor [' I confess with embarrassment '], iam desuetudine longa/uix subeunt ipsi uerba Latina mihi'.”
“Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_.”
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
“Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Langage et pensée"; in _Année psychologique_ (1908), vol. 14, pp. 284-339.”
“Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Nouvelle théorie psychologique et clinique de la démence"; in _Année psychologique_ (1909), vol. 15, pp. 168-272.”
“Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Application des Méthodes nouvelles au diagnostique du niveau intellectuel chez des enfants normaux et anormaux d'hospice et d'école primaire"; in _Année psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 245-336.”
“Masturbation_, pp. 11-18; also, Arthur MacDonald, _Le Criminel Type_, pp. 227 et seq.; cf.G. Stanley Hall, _Adolescence_, vol. i, pp. 432 _et seq.”
“In my book _Socialismo et Criminalità_, published in 1883, and which to-day my adversaries, including M. Garofalo (p. 128 _et seq. _), try to oppose to the opinions which I have upheld in my more recent book,”
“A. Buhot de Kersers, _Histoire et statistique du département du Cher, canton de Mehun_, Bourges, 1891, in 4to, pp. 261 _et seq.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘et’.
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Ecce Romani
When in Rome...
salve, ecce, omnis, puella, puer, cannis, equis, domus, quae, postquam, vestemque, suam and 106 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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November Words-10031
Godspeed, odious, affinity, cicatrix, air lift, domino, dominance, eggplant, donkey, tug boat, trifle, sculpture and 8 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Missale Romanum
Latin words from the ordinary of the Mass that do not have obvious English cognates. For a complete list of words used in the Traditional Latin Mass (the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite), see ...
lætíficat, dolóso, érue, incédo, dum, confitébor, contúrbas, spera, quóniam, adhuc, illi, vultus and 169 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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Family Words
Keeping it close to home. These are words to do with my life and my relatives, living, dead or legendary.
shabbishing, gee willikers, gubbins, cancer, snifter, liberty, gazunder, alexandra, strawberries, donald white, pegleg, red and white snake and 38 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
Tweets
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bilby See ampersand. Apr 28, 2011
bilby Intriguing Flickr feed. Apr 28, 2011
wakaba wiktionary should read: (colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of eat. Jan 22, 2011
madmouth I associate it so strongly with Victorian and fin de siecle primness, but it sounds really rustic for all that. Jun 1, 2009
frogapplause Mine too. Jun 1, 2009
bilby My grandfather said this. Jun 1, 2009
madmouth "'You've et a great big worm!' shrieked Gerald"
-Anne of Windy Poplars Jun 1, 2009