From en.wiktionary.org:
[ćute]
** English
[Cuteness]
*** Etymology
[en] Aphetic form of [en], originally meaning “keenly perceptive or
discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US
students (slang) [1834]. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing
attraction to features usually possessed by the young.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Possessing physical features, behavior s, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infant s and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
2. Lovable , charming , attractive or pleasing , especially in a youthful , dainty , quaint or fun-spirited way.
3. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous .
4. * [1=en]
5. Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious ; cutesy .
6. * [1=en]
7. Mentally keen or discerning ( _See also acute_ )
8. * CA. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
9. *: Then [Dick Turpin] being so very CUTE, <br> He hid his money in his boot.
10. * [en]
11. * [passage="The police are CUTE enough, of course, to choose either a Roman Catholic or a materialist as the magistrate."]
12. [en] Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
13. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1963 | journal=The Tablet | volume=217
|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=uG3qRJ9pTrUC&q=%22cute+solution%22
|text= CUTE solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force
discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key. }}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2012 | journal=Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining | title=Vertex neighborhoods, low conductance cuts, and good seeds for local community methods
|url=https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~sesh/pubs/nbd-comm-conf.pdf |text=We state a
CUTE result that can be derived from our calcuations[sic]. It is not applied
anywhere later, but shows that graphs with heavy tails and large clustering
coefficients have large cores. }}
**** Usage notes
All meanings except for the first one are less commonly found outside of North
America.
**** Synonyms
- [having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals] [en]
- [attractive or pleasing in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way] [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Descendants
- [ar]
- [hy]
- [nl]
- [ja]
**** Translations
[having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] [1 - _with comical touch,_ 2]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kapampangan: [pam] , [pam]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] [predicative] , [ko] [attributive]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mansi:
- Norwegian: [no]
- Nǀuu: [ngh]
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Southern Cone]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] , [yi] , [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[attractive or pleasing in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way]
- Arabic:
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [colloquial]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es] [colloquial] , [es] [Southern Cone]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[dated: mentally keen or discerning; clever, shrewd]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[en]
** Danish
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [da].
*** Adjective
[da-adj]
1. [da] cute, adorable
2. * {{ quote-book | da | year=2010 | author=Kirsten Sonne Harild | title=Pony & Co. 4 - Lises forvandling | publisher=Gyldendal A/S | isbn=9788702096095
|passage=„De er sådan lidt tegneserieagtige, ikke? Ligesom shetlændere.
CUTE.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | da | year=2010 | author=Jesper Staunstrup | title=At være fremmed... | publisher=BoD – Books on Demand | isbn=9788771141788 | page=187
|passage=Dyret er altså bare ikke _CUTE_... Det er en stor rottelignende
dræber, der er altædende.}}
1. [da] sweet , attractive (of a person, especially a prospective partner)
2. * {{ quote-book | da | year=2012 | author=w:Hanne-Vibeke Holst | title=Hjertets renhed | publisher=Gyldendal A/S | isbn=9788702103397
|passage=Han er CUTE. Frederik var rimelig CUTE.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | da | year=2014 | author=Ina Bruhn | title=Maja og Dancer: Hestene på Ponygården 3 | publisher=Rosinante & Co | isbn=9788763836562
|passage=Han hedder Elvin. Er det ikke et totalt CUTE navn?}}
1. * {{ quote-book | da | year=2014 | author=w:Dennis Jürgensen | title=Hår(d) | publisher=Tellerup A/S | isbn=9788758811284
|passage=Hun var CUTE, det var hun faktisk, og jeg prøvede desperat ikke at
tænke på min isse.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | da | year=2013 | author=Anders Haahr Rasmussen | title=Modellen: #dayinthelife | publisher=Art People | isbn=9788771376135
|passage=Josephine Skriver har tidligere haft problemer med sit runde, CUTE
ansigt og har det for så vidt stadigvæk.}}
**** Synonyms
- [adorable] [da] , [da]
** Italian
[lang=it]
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Pronunciation
[cùte]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [it] cutis , skin (of a person)
**** Derived terms
- [it]
[it]
** Latin
*** Noun
[la]
1. [la]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Pali
*** Alternative forms
[pi-alt]
*** Adjective
[pi-adj form]
1. [pi] , _which is_ [pi]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro], accusative of [la]. The expected result would have been [ro] in
Romanian, but may have been influenced by [ro] and [ro].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
- [ro]
- [ro]
*** Noun
[f]
1. whetstone
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:DEX]
** Vietnamese
*** Etymology
From [vi].
*** Pronunciation
[cu te]
*** Adjective
[vi-adj]
1. [en]