Diminutive vs Trish - What's the difference?
diminutive | trish |
Very small.
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Serving to diminish.
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(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
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As an adjective diminutive
is very small.As a noun diminutive
is (grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.As a proper noun trish is
a diminutive of the female given name patricia.diminutive
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
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- diminutive of liberty
Synonyms
* (very small) lilliputian, tinyAntonyms
* (very small) huge, gigantic * augmentativeNoun
(wikipedia diminutive) (en noun)- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .
Synonyms
* nomen deminutivumAntonyms
* augmentativeExternal links
* (wikipedia "diminutive")trish
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Trix" was a derivation of Trish', our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; ' Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.