deminutivus
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dēminuō (“to diminish”) + -īvus. The form dīminutīvus, on which most descendants are based, is based on dīminuō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deː.mi.nuˈtiː.u̯us/, [d̪eːmɪnʊˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.mi.nuˈti.vus/, [d̪eminuˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
[edit]dēminutīvus (feminine dēminutīva, neuter dēminutīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēminutīvus | dēminutīva | dēminutīvum | dēminutīvī | dēminutīvae | dēminutīva | |
| Genitive | dēminutīvī | dēminutīvae | dēminutīvī | dēminutīvōrum | dēminutīvārum | dēminutīvōrum | |
| Dative | dēminutīvō | dēminutīvō | dēminutīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | dēminutīvum | dēminutīvam | dēminutīvum | dēminutīvōs | dēminutīvās | dēminutīva | |
| Ablative | dēminutīvō | dēminutīvā | dēminutīvō | dēminutīvīs | |||
| Vocative | dēminutīve | dēminutīva | dēminutīvum | dēminutīvī | dēminutīvae | dēminutīva | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Noun descendants are at dēminutīvum.
- → Dutch: diminutief (adjective)
- → English: diminutive (adjective)
- → Middle French: diminutif
- French: diminutif (adjective)
References
[edit]- “deminutivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deminutivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.