- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- the god
personifying this
sacred force was thus
called Jarovit, or
hypocoristically Jarilo. The only
historic source that
mentions this
deity is a 12th-century...
-
child actor William Barry (disambiguation)
Those for whom
Barry is a
hypocoristic for
another given name are
listed separately.
Barry Alvarez (born 1946)...
- 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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Misha (Миша) is a
diminutive of the
Russian name
Mikhail (Михаил). A
hypocoristic of Michael, its English-language
equivalent would be Mike and Mick. Sometimes...
- and frid- ("peace" or "protection"). The
German name was
commonly hypocoristically abbreviated as Götz from the late
medieval period. Götz and variants...
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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...
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known as MTN-BʿL (Matan-Baʿal, 'Gift of the Lord'),
which was
turned hypocoristically into King
Belus of Tyre in Virgil's Aeneid. List of
Kings of Tyre Belus...
