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Definition diminutive suffix in British English

diminutive suffix noun

[countable] noun
1

a group of letters that are added to the end of a word to show that something is smaller than things of that type usually are, for example '-let' added to 'drop' to make 'droplet'

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Definition diminutive suffix in British English