DictionaryRoot: -ette
Old French
-ette
small; sometimes affectionate
Forms
- -ette
- -et — The corresponding masculine Old French form.
Origin
An Old French ending for smallness with earlier Romance ancestry.
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noun / verb
budget
BUJ-it/ˈbʌdʒɪt/
A plan for allocating available money, time, or other resources.
Etymology
Originally a small leather pouch, a budget became a financial plan through the image of a treasury minister keeping plans for spending and revenue in a wallet.