OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3299

diminutive

/dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
diminutivo
A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
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