Hello, this is my first post here on this forum, so if this is the incorrect place to ask this question, I apologize… I did read the sticky’s and looked around, and it seems this is an appropriate section.
Anyway, I’m currently writing a story that involves plenty of appropriation, loan-wording, and mixed usage of Vulgar Latin (as in “Sermo Vulgaris”, not dirty limericks) interspersed with English. Though I realize it would probably more appropriately be interspersed with Italian or possibly French, but I only speak English, so there it is. I won’t bore you with too many of the details, but a very, very generalized setting of the story takes place is a semi-dystopian future, partially taking place in territories controlled by a reestablished (and flourishing) Roman Empire mixed with a militarized Vatican Theocracy. Which is why Latin has also resurged into common usage across it’s empire.
I have a strong feeling I will be visiting these forums often and searching and reading many threads here to help my research in using particular words, phrases and translations, and when needed, appreciate any help from all of you here and your knowledge 
To be perfectly honest though, (as I really do hope that this story will be published once it’s finished), to reach as broad an audience as possible, I’m not striving for any kind of exceptionally deep or overwhelming use of Latin/Vulgate/Greek. Only to punctuate and mix it in on occasion for readers to understand that aspects of these ancient languages have seeped out beyond the confines of strictly academia, research and religious use, and entered into a more common parlance usage. But for the amount that is used, I’m striving to be as accurate and correct as possible. I’ve loved ancient history and antiquity since I was very young, as well as science fiction, and this story is definitely a marriage of these two subjects that I’ve enjoyed so much for decades now. So I want to do right by it, insofar as to be both engaging and accurate, and to make it appeal to as wide a spectrum of readers as possible, but also have flourishes that academics/serious non-professionals will get and appreciate.
Ok, enough rambling. Just thought since this is my first post, a brief introduction for the reason I’m here and explanation of why I’m asking for translations of rather particular words would be appropriate.
After much googling, I could not find an answer to this, so my next step was to find a forum like this and to ask it directly to experts. I’m trying to find a way to express the word “Apocalypse” (or rather “Apocalypsis”, as I understand to be the Latin spelling) in a diminutive form. If it’s even possible to correctly translate this into a diminutive!
The reason I ask this, is because one of the characters in this story has a series of Revelations-like visions. But they’re not always exactly Biblical or prophetic, but more in line with the Greek meaning/translation of apocalypse, as in an “unveiling”, revealing or disclosure of (hidden/secret) knowledge. So I’d like to use a diminutive form of apocalypsis as the name of the chapter where she experiences the first of these visions, to sorta capture the essence that this is only the first, small revealing of bigger things to come. A “minor apocalypse”, if you will, but simply calling it that or saying “A / The First Apocalypse” just doesn’t sound right to me, and I think will give off the wrong impression, I feel, since most readers would probably, naturally, interpret “apocalypse” as to mean a great war or battle heralding Biblical end times… and that’s not the picture I’m trying to paint with it’s use.
If a diminutive form of apocalypsis simply doesn’t make grammatical sense, please tell me so! If anyone has an alternative suggestion that does make sense, I would definitely appreciate any help and suggestions.
Thank you everyone!
Paul