- 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...
- Mia is a
feminine given name. Long in use as a
diminutive of
names such as Maria, Mia is
recorded as a
given name in the
United States in the 1960s, and...
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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...
- name and
surname which is
derived from the
Latin name Constantinus, a
hypocoristic of the
first names Constans and Constantius, both
meaning "constant,...
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occasionally masculine. It is
derived from a
diminutive of Siga, a
mediaeval hypocoristic of
Germanic names having the
first element Sig- (meaning "victory")....
-
Alexander Alexandra (disambiguation) Xano (disambiguation), a
Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre" This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated...
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Scandinavian in the
spelling Sofie and Sophy. A
Dutch hypocoristic is Sofieke.
Russian has the
hypocoristic Соня (Sonya),
which in the late 19th
century was...
- ('baptized'), Radovan, Dragan, Željan, Dejan, Nayden, Mirjana.
Diminutive and
hypocoristic (endearing)
names deriving from the above-mentioned
dithematic names...
-
Vivian (and
variants such as
Vivien and Vivienne) is a
given name, and less
often a surname,
derived from a
Latin name of the
Roman Empire period, masculine...
