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pet-
To rush, fly. Also petə- . Oldest form *peth1‑. Variant *pteh1‑, becoming *ptē‑.
Derivatives include feather, compete, perpetual, ptomaine, symptom, and hippopotamus.- Suffixed form *pet-rā‑. feather, from Old English fether, feather, from Germanic *fethrō, feather.
- -petal, petition, petulant; appetite, compete, impetigo, impetuous, impetus, perpetual, repeat, from Latin petere, to go toward, seek.
- Suffixed form *pet-nā‑. panache, pen1, penna, pennate, pennon, pin, pinna, pinnacle, pinnate, pinnati-, pinnule; empennage, from Latin penna, pinna, feather, wing.
- Suffixed form *pet-ro‑ in compound *aku-petro‑ (see ōku-).
- Suffixed form *pet-yo‑. propitious, from Latin propitius, favorable, gracious, originally a religious term meaning "falling or rushing forward," hence "eager," "well-disposed" (said of the gods; prō‑, forward; see per1).
- Suffixed zero-grade form *pt-ero‑. -pter; apteryx, archaeopteryx, coleopteran, dipteral, isopteran, mecopteran, monopteros, orthopteran, peripteral, plecopteran, pteridology, pterygoid, sauropterygian, from Greek pteron, feather, wing, and pterux, wing.
- Suffixed zero-grade form *pt-ilo‑. coleoptile, from Greek ptilon, soft feathers, down, plume.
- Reduplicated form *pi-pt‑. ptomaine, ptosis; asymptote, peripeteia, proptosis, symptom, from Greek piptein, to fall, with verbal adjective ptōtos (< *ptō-to‑), falling, fallen, and nominal derivatives ptōsis (< *ptō-ti‑), a fall, and ptōma (< *ptō-mn̥), a fall, fallen body, corpse.
- O-grade form *pot‑. hippopotamus, potamology, from Greek potamos "rushing water," river (-amo‑, Greek suffix).
- Suffixed form *pet-tro‑. talipot, from Sanskrit pattram, feather, leaf.
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