Etymology

petulant

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Latin petulāns
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  1. Latin · derived frompetulāns
  2. English todaypetulant

From Middle French, from Latin petulāns, akin to petō (“to ask for”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.