# small text

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points.

## Etymology
Calque of French petit-texte.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/small-text