diminutize

Definitions

1. 1

   To put (a word, name) in a diminutive form.

   • […] her name is Concepcion, diminutized: Concha […]
   • […] Marie Antoinette is referred to in the literature of the Revolution as the “Widow Capet”—a title containing no name of her own or any she herself had ever used. Elsewhere her given name is diminutized as “Toinon” and “Toinette.”
   • 2007, Bruce Donaldson, German: An Essential Grammar, London: Routledge, Section 6.3, p. 41, All diminutized nouns, whatever their original gender, become neuter once they take either of [the] endings [-chen or -lein].
2. 2

   To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).

   • [He] was a small wizened man whose face was diminutized by a large flat-brimmed black stetson.

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