A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment. For example, doggie from dog, Sophie for Sophia, darling from dear
Very small.
Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation.
Particularly in Slavic languages, a shortened form of the adjective, used predicatively.