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What the ʾell? Testicle is a diminutive!
Author(s) -
Neumann Paul E.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/ca.23274
Subject(s) - diminutive , medicine , connotation , meaning (existential) , anatomy , linguistics , epistemology , philosophy
The frequency of diminutives in anatomical Latin has often been noted to be high, but that is not unusual in postclassical Latin. Although the connotation of “little” is well known, many of the diminutives in anatomical Latin do not have that meaning. The morphology of regular, irregular, and secondary diminutives is presented, along with that of adjectival forms of diminutives. Several transgendered and malformed diminutives are discussed. Clin. Anat. 31:1100–1103, 2018. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.