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Definition of Diminutives
1. diminutive [n] - See also: diminutive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diminutives
Literary usage of Diminutives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1877)
"ON CERTAIN ITALIAN Diminutives. BY CB CAYLEY, ESQ. THERE are several noted
discrepancies between the Latin and Italian ways of forming diminutives of nouns. ..."
2. Russian reader: accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes by Paul Jean Marie Boyer, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Speranskiĭ, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Northrup Harper (1906)
"The diminutives. The diminutives in Russian are so numerous that there is no
dictionary which enumerates their capricious varieties. ..."
3. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Diminutives were a feature of Vulgar I. H in. as we see from the forms censured
in the Probi Appendix ..."
4. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"The English diminutives may be arranged according to a variety of principles.
... Hence we get names for the two kinds of diminutives; viz. the term meiotic ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In breadth it is one-fifth of the shield. Its diminutives are the ... and, with
its diminutives, is frequently used to express illegitimacy, especially the ..."
6. A New Method of Learning the German Language: Embracing Both the Analytic by W. H. Woodbury (1874)
"The diminutives are also used as terms of endearment, or to indicate familiarity ;
and are often employed where in English no idea of diminutiveness would ..."
7. The Teutonic Name-system Applied to the Family Names of France, England by Robert Ferguson (1864)
"Diminutives. A diminutive in the language implies small- ness. ... The English
language is not strong in diminutives ; in this respect the Scottish language ..."
8. Grammar of the Sindhi Language: Compared with the Sanskrit-Prakrit and the by Ernest Trumpp (1872)
"Formation of Diminutives. §. 11. The Sindhi evinces a great facility in forming
different kinds of Diminutives; it surpasses in this respect all the kindred ..."
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