First opened Tuesday, December 18, 2012
ペット
ペット
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
pet
ペット is borrowed from English pet, and the source also lists clippings of トランペット (toranpetto, “trumpet”) and English PET.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
彼はペットに優しい。
He's gentle with our pets.
ペット持ち込み禁止。
No pets allowed.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Borrowed from English pet.”
- “Abbreviation of トランペット (toranpetto, “trumpet”).”
- “Borrowed from English PET, itself the initialism for polyethylene terephthalate, a common material used to make plastic.”
Source: Wiktionary: ペット (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.
- Clipping
- A longer word or phrase shortened in everyday use.