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...

The Latin language has a robust diminutive-forming system. There are many diminutive suffixes: those in calculus, axilla, fistula, and areola to start...

Diminutive forms of words are commonly used in everyday Australian English. While many dialects of English make use of diminutives and hypocorisms, Australian...

, not *Михаилушка Mikhailushka). Unlike English, in which the use of diminutive forms is optional even between close friends, in East Slavonic languages...

(diminutive), Jacot (diminutive), Jacotte (feminized), Jaco (diminutive), Jack (diminutive), Jacky (diminutive), Jacq (diminutive), Jacquy (diminutive)...

recognized as being valid. Psomophis genimaculatus (Boettger, 1885) – spirit diminutive snake, spirit ground snake, cobra-cabelo Psomophis joberti (Sauvage, 1884)...

Aglaothorax diminutiva, the diminutive shieldback, is a species of shield-backed katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. It is found in North America. These...

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...

actively used. Popularity of pagan names resulted in formation of various diminutive forms: Bychko from Byk, Zhdanko from Zhdan, Puzeika from Puzo and so on...