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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
diminutive /dɪˈmɪnjʊtɪv/
▶adjective
  • 1 extremely or unusually small.
  • 2 (of a word, name, or suffix) implying smallness, either actual or as an expression of affection or scorn (e.g. teeny, -let).
▶noun a diminutive word or suffix.

■ a shortened informal form of a name.
– derivatives
diminutively adverb,
diminutiveness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. diminutif, -ive, from late L. diminutivus, from L. deminut-, deminuere ‘lessen’.



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