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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.
Meaning of Diminutive from wikipedia
- Look up
diminutive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
diminutive is a word
obtained by
modifying a root word to
convey a
slighter degree of its root...
- The
following is a list of
diminutives by language.
English has a
great variety of
historical diminutives adopted from
other languages but many of these...
- The
Latin language has a
robust diminutive-forming system.
There are many
diminutive suffixes:
those in calculus, axilla, fistula, and
areola to start...
- free dictionary.
Lupita is
short for Lupe or
shortening Guadalupita,
diminutive of Guadalupe. It may
refer to:
Lupita D'Alessio (born 1954),
Mexican singer...
- A
leprechaun (Irish: lucharachán/leipreachán/luchorpán) is a
diminutive supernatural being in
Irish folklore,
classed by some as a type of
solitary fairy...
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actively used. Po****rity of
pagan names resulted in
formation of
various diminutive forms:
Bychko from Byk,
Zhdanko from Zhdan,
Puzeika from Puzo and so on...
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Diminutive forms of
words are
commonly used in
everyday Australian English.
While many
dialects of
English make use of
diminutives and hypocorisms, Australian...
- (
diminutive),
Jacot (
diminutive),
Jacotte (feminized), Jaco (
diminutive), Jack (
diminutive),
Jacky (
diminutive), Jacq (
diminutive),
Jacquy (
diminutive)...
- The name
shamrock comes from
Irish seamróg ([ˈʃamˠɾˠoːɡ]),
which is the
diminutive of the
Irish word
seamair and
simply means "young clover". At most times...
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origin that
became widespread in
Eastern Europe.
Tatiana is a feminine,
diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and
later Latin—name Tatius. King
Titus Tatius...
