statelet

/ˈsteɪtlɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

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noun

Derogatory

"Egypt talks to Hamas but is not eager to see the radical Islamic group succeed in running a small statelet next door."
"In 2014, the European statelet of Liechtenstein followed the Swiss lead and returned $227 million that had been stolen by [Sani] Abacha's son […]"
"Ms McDonald’s party has long argued that Northern Ireland is not working – a “failed statelet” being their chosen description."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English statelet From state + -let.

statelets (plural)

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