2024-09-06 08:53:18
And hypocoristic is another name for a person of an affective, familiar or euphemistic nature, and which is not the same as a reductive.
In the media, however, it is not uncommon for the two terms to be confused, as in “He defended the public broadcaster’s use of the diminutive Pepe for labeling”, “Queen Victoria was called Drina, a diminutive of her first name, Alexandrina. » or “Pita, the minor of Guadalupe, was the youngest of that family.”
As academic grammar explains, and hypocoristic it could be an abbreviationthat is, a version containing part of the name is deletedlike Sebas o Lupineof Sebastián y Guadelouperespectively, the can take a special shapeno obvious or direct relation to the original, for example Pep o Paco (of José y Francisco).
Instead, a diminutive is based on adding the corresponding suffix, without significantly changing the real namelike Clarita y Lorencinof Clara y Lorenzo. Hypercortisols often have a slight decrease (charity y Monolithof Charo y Manolo), although the reverse process, by which a hypocoristic is created from little, is much rarer (Pitaof Lupita that of Guadalupe).
So, in the previous examples, the appropriate thing was “He defended that the public broadcaster uses the hypocoristic Pepe for labeling”, “Drina was called by Queen Victoria, hypocoristic of her first name, Alexandrina” and “Pita, the hypocoristic of the minority of Guadalupe, she was the youngest of that family. In the last two cases, we could speak of abbreviate (as “Pita, abbreviation of the Guadalupe diminutive”), in reference to the procedure for its creation.
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