- 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...
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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...
- The
Latin language has a
robust diminutive-forming system.
There are many
diminutive suffixes:
those in calculus, axilla, fistula, and
areola to start...
- (
diminutive),
Jacot (
diminutive),
Jacotte (feminized), Jaco (
diminutive), Jack (
diminutive),
Jacky (
diminutive), Jacq (
diminutive),
Jacquy (
diminutive)...
- , not *Михаилушка Mikhailushka).
Unlike English, in
which the use of
diminutive forms is
optional even
between close friends, in East
Slavonic languages...
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Psomophis genimaculatus (Boettger, 1885) -
spirit ground snake,
spirit diminutive snake Psomophis joberti (Sauvage, 1884)
Psomophis obtusus (Cope, 1864)...
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Psomophis genimaculatus, the
spirit ground snake or
spirit diminutive snake, is a
species of
snake of the
family Colubridae. It is
found in Bolivia, Brazil...
- take
diminutive forms; the
former take a
diminutive ending and thus
function as nouns,
while the
latter remain adverbs and
always have the
diminutive with...
- The
Diminutive worm eel (Pseudomyrophis fugesae) is an eel in the
family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was
described by John E. McCosker, Eugenia...