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-elette
-elette
Middle French
Suffix
-elette
-  diminutive suffix
-  costelette- cutlet, literally "little rib"
 
 
-  costelette
References
- “côtelette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language). Contains a reference to -(el)ette in its etymology.