diminutive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Very small.

   “Mrs. Washington ("Oh, la, call me Martha, Boys") is a diminutive woman with a cheerful rather than happy air, who seems to bustle even when standing still..”

2. sıfat Serving to diminish.
3. sıfat Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
4. isim A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

   “Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.”

5. isim The smallest, thinnest version of a traditional heraldic ordinary ("geometric shape on a shield"), often used to represent multiple instances of a charge or to modify a main, central, and larger charge; not itself modifiable.