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Diminutival
Diminutival Di*min`u*ti"val, a. Indicating diminution; diminutive. ``Diminutival forms' [of words]. --Earle. -- n. A diminutive. --Earle.
Diminutive
Diminutive Di*min"u*tive, a. [Cf. L. deminutivus, F. diminutif.] 1. Below the average size; very small; little. 2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. 3. Tending to diminish. [R.] Diminutive of liberty. --Shaftesbury.
Diminutive
Diminutive Di*min"u*tive, n. 1. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing. Such water flies, diminutives of nature. --Shak. 2. (Gram.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin. Babyisms and dear diminutives. --Tennyson. Note: The word sometimes denotes a derivative verb which expresses a diminutive or petty form of the action, as scribble.
Diminutively
Diminutively Di*min"u*tive*ly, adv. In a diminutive manner.
Diminutiveness
Diminutiveness Di*min"u*tive*ness, n. The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

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- Mirjam ****, Personennamen als Quelle der Grammatikalisierung: Der -ing-Diminutiv in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in: Beiträge zur Namenforschung: Neue Folge:...
- small hammer [1] Latin Lexicon, martulus or marculus, small hammer; diminutiv from martus or marcus, hammer [2] Wikimedia Commons has media related...
- Vojislav S. (1960). Sufiksi diminutiv i emnave të gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian). Rilindja. p. 66. Patronimet me kuptim diminutiv (hipokoristik): Maliq: (nga...
- "verkleinurung von Heinrich", Grimm follows with the example of "Chimke" as diminutiv von Joachim", and such names are listed as category E "Kosenamen" in the...
- Baumers Biographie über Matthys und Edith Odermatts Dissertation über das Diminutiv im Nidwaldnerischen – vor. Walter Haas: [Besprechung von Iso Baumers Biographie...
- einem Einwohnemamen auf -ци < ON *Село her. Auch eine Erklärung aus dem Diminutiv селце ,Dörflein‘ ist möglich.C. PJ 59 Селце, BE 2180 Selce, VA 50 Σέλτση...