diminutive

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a. 小的, 小型的, 指小的 n. 身材极小的人, 指小词, 爱称

发音

CA /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
US /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
AU /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
UK /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
SCOT /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪv/
NZ /dəˈmən.jə.təv/
IN /ɖɪˈmɪn.ju.tɪv/
其它 /dɪˈmɪn.ju.ə.tɪv/

词形变化

diminutives 复数 diminutives more diminutive 比较级 most diminutive 最高级

别名

dimin. diminuitive dim.

教材释义与例句

名词

爱称；指小词；身材极小的人

形容词

小的，小型的，微小的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

    指小词

    小称词

    语言学

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

  2. 2.

    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.

    政治 纹章
adj.
  1. 1.

    Very small.

  2. 2.

    Serving to diminish.

    废旧

    1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175, They cou’d, perhaps, even embrace POVERTY contentedly, rather than submit to any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.

  3. 3.

    Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

    指小词

    小称词

    语言学

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

word
形容词

同义词 4

tiny petite bantam lilliputian

近义相关 2

little small

词源

Inherited from Middle English diminutif, derived from Old French diminutif, derived from Latin dīminutīv|us, ~a, ~um (adjective), from dīminūt|us, ~a, ~um (participle), perfect passive participle of dīmin|uō, ~uere, ~uī, ~ūtum (verb). First attested in 1398.

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