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单词 diminutive
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diminutiveadj.n.

/dɪˈmɪnjʊtɪv/
Forms: Also Middle English diminitif ( -yf, etc.), 1500s–1600s diminitive, 1500s demynutyve.
Etymology: < French diminutif, -ive (14th cent. in Godefroy Suppl.), < Latin dīminūtīvus, dēminūtīvus, < dīminūtus, dēminūtus, past participle of dī-, dēminuĕre to lessen. The noun use is found in English earlier than the adjective.
A. adj.
1. Grammar. Expressing diminution; denoting something little: usually applied to derivatives or affixes expressing something small of the kind denoted by the primitive word. (Opposed to augmentative.)
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > expressing diminution
diminutive1579
diminuenta1627
diminutival1868
caritative1906
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 7 Where they honoured this old woman [Hecale], calling her by a diminutiue name, Hecalena.
1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory 32 Verbal nouns..some of them being augmentative, some diminutive.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. Diminutive adjectives in ish, as greenish.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §13. 96 In most languages, the objects of love are spoken of under diminutive epithets.
1876 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. (ed. 21) §313 The diminutive sense easily passes into that of depreciation, as in worldling, groundling.
2. Making less or smaller; tending to diminution. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > producing or allowing decrease
reductive1633
straiteninga1652
diminishing1665
diminutive1677
remissive1686
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 266 God..cannot fal under any mutation either..augmentative or diminutive.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. ii. 175 Any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.
3. Representing or describing something as less than it is; disparaging, depreciative. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [adjective]
detractive1490
detracting1530
derogatory1570
reproachful1574
detractory1585
disadvantageous1620
detractious1626
derogatingc1629
undervaluing1639
disparaging1645
derogative1646
diminutive1662
diminishing1675
vilipendinga1722
belittling1793
depreciatory1805
vilipensive1824
depreciating1837
detractatory1860
vilipenditory1884
depreciant1885
slurring1892
hatemongering1926
denigratory1955
marginalizing1977
1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis ii. 11 A diminutive and disparaging apprehension of the infinite..Goodness of God.
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 443 The Death of Christ..a federal Rite..appears to be too low and too diminutive a Name for it.
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 115 A scene so new..that the name of a Revolution is diminutive of its character, and it rises into a Regeneration of man.
4. Characterized by diminution; hence, of less size or degree than the ordinary; small, little. In later use, generally, a more forcible expression for ‘small’: = minute, tiny. (Usually in reference to physical size.)
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > small in quantity, amount, or degree
littleeOE
litec1175
smallc1325
somedealc1340
slight1530
diminutive1602
minor1612
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > small of its kind
demi1418
young1550
minikin1566
dwarf-like1582
diminutive1602
minitive?1602
diminute1611
pocket1621
Lilliputian1726
duodecimo1780
toy1821
minified1841
junior1860
toy-sized1861
Lilliput1867
toyish1871
mini1963
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very small in amount or degree
superfine1575
tiny1598
minute1606
exiguous1630
myriate1665
delicate1692
miniature1714
infinitesimal1733
diminutive1741
weeny1790
inappreciable1802
teeny1802
scrumptious1834
teeny-weeny1842
teeny-tiny1849
tee-tiny1872
minuscule1878
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. C2v Balurdo cals for your diminutiue attendance.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. ii. 10 The poore Wren (The most diminitiue of Birds). View more context for this quotation
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Diminutiue, little.
1641 R. Brathwait Mercurius Britanicus 11 Our Progenitours esteemed diminutive Cottages as Kingdomes.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 146 A diminutive Pine, which grows not above the Height of a Man.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. i. 15 I could not sufficiently wonder at the Intrepidity of these diminutive Mortals.
1741 T. Gray Let. 25 Sept. in Corr. (1971) I. 177 Last post I received a very diminutive letter.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. viii. 283 The summer..passed in unavailing movements and diminutive attempts.
1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 123 We..know that children are not diminutive angels.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 24 Small, almost diminutive, in stature.
B. n.
1. Grammar. A diminutive word or term (see A. 1); a derivative denoting something small of the kind.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > formation of diminutive > diminutive word or term
diminutive1398
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xcvi. (Tollem. MS.) Of ‘Lens, lentis,’ comeþ ‘Lenticula,’ þe diminityf þerof.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 303 Adjectyves whiche be demynutyves in signyfication.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. B3 Diminutiues end commonly in ito, illo.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 264 The word δαιμόνιον..is not a Diminitive..but an Adjective Substantiv'd.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 135. ⁋1 Cicero..calls those small Pretenders to Wisdom..certain Minute Philosophers, using a Diminutive even of the Word Little.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 79 In babyisms, and dear diminutives Scatter'd all over the vocabulary Of such a love.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 80 His name, Adamnan, is a diminutive of Adam.
2. Heraldry. One of the smaller ordinaries corresponding in form and position to the larger, but of less width.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > of same shape but smaller
diminutive1572
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. C iv b This cros [croslet] is not so oft borne in armys by him selfe..neuer the lees mony tymys hit is borne in dimynutiuys, that is to say in littyll crossis crossit.]
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 32v The Barrulet is a Diminutive thereof, and is but the fourth parte of the Barre.
1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry (1787) iv. 60 The Pale..Its Diminutives are the Pallet, which is the half of the Pale, and the Endorse, which is the fourth part of a Pale.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 14 The diminutives of this ordinary are the bendlet, which is half the bend; the cost, or cotise, half the bendlet; and the riband, half of the cost.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 23 All the honourable ordinaries (but not their diminutives,..)..may be charged.
3. A diminutive thing or person.
a. A small variety or form of something; a ‘miniature’.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > thing small of its kind
decimo-sexto1594
diminutive1609
toy1665
a shrimp of aa1774
bantam1787
pygmy1838
yarkera1842
baby1847
smidgen1952
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 31 How the poore world is pestred with such water flies, diminitiues of nature. View more context for this quotation
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxiii. sig. O5 All families are but diminutiues of a Court.
1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 46 A reflection..which I often found myself justified in bringing home to these diminutives.
1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) I. xi. 145 The diminutive tells me he believes he has wronged you.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xix. 150 A stimulus, acting constantly, like the diminutive of a cup of strong coffee.
b. Something very small. Obsolete.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xiii. 37 Most Monster-like be shewne For poor'st Diminitiues, for Dolts. View more context for this quotation
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 129 In what diminutives the plastick principle lodgeth, is exemplified in seeds.
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c. in diminutive: on a small scale, in miniature (obsolete).
4. Something that diminishes or lessens; spec. in Medicine. A medicine that abates the violence of a disease. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > one who or that which decreases anything
shortener?1566
abater1583
abator1592
diminutive1596
reductivea1676
reducer1894
shrinker1921
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > soothing medicine
lenitive1563
acopon1566
mitigator1586
diminutive1596
assuagement1599
mitigatory1656
levative1657
lenient1672
balsamic1713
demulcent1732
assuasive1829
mitigant1838
obtundent1842
torpent1882
chill pill1981
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. liv. 244 If his Fames Deminatiue in any thing we finde.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. vi. 476 When you haue vsed all good meanes and helps of alteratiues, auerters, diminitiues.
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