deminutivum
Czech
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdɛmɪnutɪvum]
- IPA(key): [ˈdɛmɪnutiːvum]
- Rhymes: -ɪvum
Noun
deminutivum n
- diminutive
- Synonym: zdrobnělina
- Antonym: augmentativum
Declension
Declension of deminutivum (hard neuter foreign)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | deminutivum | deminutiva |
| genitive | deminutiva | deminutiv |
| dative | deminutivu | deminutivům |
| accusative | deminutivum | deminutiva |
| vocative | deminutivum | deminutiva |
| locative | deminutivu | deminutivech |
| instrumental | deminutivem | deminutivy |
Related terms
- See minus
Further reading
- “deminutivum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “deminutivum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “deminutivum”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995
- Wikiversity:Czech diminutive
Dutch
Noun
deminutivum n (plural deminutiva)
- (rare) alternative form of diminutivum
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.mɪ.nʊˈtiː.wũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪e.mi.nuˈt̪iː.vum]
Etymology 1
Ellipsis of nōmen dēminutīvum (“diminutive noun”), or simply substantivized directly from the neuter adjective form dēminutīvum.
Noun
dēminutīvum n (genitive dēminutīvī); second declension
- (grammar) diminutive noun
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēminutīvum | dēminutīva |
| genitive | dēminutīvī | dēminutīvōrum |
| dative | dēminutīvō | dēminutīvīs |
| accusative | dēminutīvum | dēminutīva |
| ablative | dēminutīvō | dēminutīvīs |
| vocative | dēminutīvum | dēminutīva |
Descendants
Adjectival descendants are at dēminutīvus.
- → Dutch: diminutief, deminutief (noun), diminutivum, deminutivum, diminutivum tantum
- → English: diminutive, deminutive (noun)
- → German: Deminutiv, Diminutiv
Etymology 2
Inflected form of dēminutīvus (“additional”).
Adjective
dēminutīvum
- inflection of dēminutīvus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular