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So, I concluded, when Nellie Griego subliminally translated her Spanish word for fish into English, in the process carrying over the Spanish gender, it was the feminine gender of trucha or its diminutive truchita rather than the masculine gender of pez that she attached to the English word.
It is the diminutive form of vespa wasp, and was a nickname given to particularly ill-tempered individuals.
He intimated that, in his humble opinion, his overseer is a loquacious and diminutive fellow of a somewhat devious and unpleasant bent, that he is afflicted with a strabismus of the sinistral optical member, and that he is currently attired in a rather noisome woolen torsal garment of an indeterminate off-chocolate hue.
Among the several types of doubles in English, a rather large group ends both parts with the diminutive suffix - y or - ie . The group seems also to contain two similar sub-groups that produce opposite effects: those that diminish size and express endearment or amusement and those that diminish stature or worth and express disapproval or contempt.
Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.