A Marché Plus location in Angers, France.

A superette is an alternative name for a compact supermarket or "mini-mart".

Etymology

In French, the ette ending conveys the idea of a smaller version of a supermarket (supermarché). However, supermarket has been shortened to super - leaving superette as an unusual example of a prefix and suffix with no stem word.[1]

Usage

The word is used in some places, particularly in New Hampshire, Hawaii, New York City, Boston, Minnesota, and the North Island of New Zealand,[2] and is a regular expression in the French language. In France, convenience stores are usually called supérettes when those are the sole convenience stores of a small town, to portray how their supplied inventory is similar to supermarkets' but their stocking capacity is reduced to the demand of the town.[3] It is also used in Serbian legislation (Serbian: supereta/суперета) to designate grocery stores with a net area between 200 and 400 m2.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Laurie Bauer (12 October 2017). Compounds and Compounding. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108416030.
  2. ↑ "...convenience stores (ie service stations, dairies, grocery stores and superettes)..., Statistics New Zealand". Stats.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. ↑ Sophie Fay (15 January 2020). "Les supérettes à la campagne, facteur de bien-être subjectif". Franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "Pravilnik o klasifikaciji trgovinskih formata" (in Serbian). Official Gazette of Serbia. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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