- HY-pə-KORR-iz-əm; from
Ancient Gr**** ὑποκόρισμα hypokórisma;
sometimes also
hypocoristic), or pet name, is a name used to show
affection for a person. It may...
- use,
hypocoristic names in
Spanish are only used to
address a
person in a very
familiar environment – the only
exception being when the
hypocoristic is...
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meanings (a low
class woman, a weakling, a mop, or a name)
derived from a
hypocoristic form of the
female name Maud.
Scottish legend makes reference to the...
- Mia is a
feminine given name in po****r use worldwide. It
originated as a
diminutive of
Maria and
other names such as
Amelia and Emilia, and was rarely...
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Arantxa is a
Basque feminine given name,
meaning "thornbush". It is a
hypocoristic for Our Lady of Arantzazu, a
shrine of Mary,
mother of Jesus, in Gipuzkoa...
- ('baptized'), Radovan, Dragan, Željan, Dejan, Nayden, Mirjana.
Diminutive and
hypocoristic (endearing)
names deriving from the above-mentioned
dithematic names...
- Éogan is an
early Irish male
given name,
which also has the
hypocoristic and
diminutive forms Eoganán, Eóghainin, Eóghain and Eóghainn. The
Modern Irish...
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extremely implausible; in one
genealogy he
appears as Ceola, an
apparent hypocoristic [...]
implying a
dithematic Ceol-name;
while the
Genealogical Regnal...
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Vladislav and can also be used as a surname. Alternately, it may be a
hypocoristic form of the
Slavic name
Vladimir (although the
normative nickname is...
- póle (поле)
means 'plain', and pólyushko (полюшко) is a
diminutive and
hypocoristic form of póle. The
music was
composed by Lev Knipper, with
lyrics by Viktor...
