Adler's Ch. 20 briefly covers diminutives, but doesn't have enough on actual word formation. Checking with Allen & Greenough's "Grammar," I find:
-ulus, -olus (after a vowel); -culus, -ellus, -illus
There are examples, but they are inconsistent, e.g. atri-olum / auri-cula.
Are there rules for using the above suffixes, or does this have to be learned strictly by memorization? I can only find a slight pattern in Greenough's book.
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There is an excellent Vicipaedia article on the formation of diminutive words:
+http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutivum_(Latinum)
But there are some other rules that I am trying to get added there:
Substantive consonant stems in c, d, g, t usually take -ul- (see Lane's Latin Grammar, section 271):
+http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutivum_(Latinum)
But there are some other rules that I am trying to get added there:
Substantive consonant stems in c, d, g, t usually take -ul- (see Lane's Latin Grammar, section 271):
- vocula from vox (stem voc-)
- mercedula from merces (stem merced-)
- regulus from rex (stem reg-)
- capitula from caput (stem capit-)
- pisciculus from piscis (stem pisci-)
- tristiculus from tristis (stem tristi-)
- molliculus from mollis (stem molli-)
- monticulus from mons (stem mont(i)-)
- particula from pars (stem part(i)-)
- calculus from calx (stem calc(i)-)
- civitatula from civitas (stem civitat(i)-)
- aetatula from aetas (stem aetat(i)-)
- audacula from audax
- infantulus from infans
- valentulus from valens
Salve! Verbifex sum quia creatio verborum latinorum novorum mihi placet!
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