diminutival
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dīminutīvus + -al.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aɪvəl
Adjective
[edit]diminutival (not comparable)
- Indicating diminution; diminutive.
References
[edit]- ^ “diminutival, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diminutival”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]diminutival m or n (feminine singular diminutivală, masculine plural diminutivali, feminine and neuter plural diminutivale)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | diminutival | diminutivală | diminutivali | diminutivale | |||
definite | diminutivalul | diminutivala | diminutivalii | diminutivalele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | diminutival | diminutivale | diminutivali | diminutivale | |||
definite | diminutivalului | diminutivalei | diminutivalilor | diminutivalelor |