Diminutive /(?)/

Di·min·u·tive

Diminutive

a.
  1. Below the average size; very small; little.
  2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
  3. Tending to diminish. [R.]
    Diminutive of liberty.
    — Shaftesbury.

Diminutive

n.
  1. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
    Such water flies, diminutives of nature.
  2. A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin. (Gram.)
    Babyisms and dear diminutives.