- 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...
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August 8th, 1896, p. 126: “It
seems probable the
origin is due to the
diminutiveness of the gl****;” “The
expression ‘a pony of beer’ is
often used in South...
- The
Latin language has a
robust diminutive-forming system.
There are many
diminutive suffixes:
those in calculus, axilla, fistula, and
areola to start...
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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...
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Slavic places: Bely
Gorod Belgorod Gorodets (with -ets as the
suffix of
diminutiveness)
Gorodishche (with -ishche as the
suffix of augmentation) Ivangorod...
- 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
diminutive woodrat (Nelsonia neotomodon) is a
species of
rodent in the
family Cricetidae. It is
endemic to Mexico. Castro-Arellano, I.; Álvarez-Castañeda...
- The
Diminutive worm eel (Pseudomyrophis fugesae) is an eel in the
family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was
described by John E. McCosker, Eugenia...
- The
diminutive serotine (Eptesicus diminutus) is a bat
species found in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. González, E.M.;...
- , not *Михаилушка Mikhailushka).
Unlike English, in
which the use of
diminutive forms is
optional even
between close friends, in East
Slavonic languages...
