Crossword-Solution: HYPOCORISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypocoristic | a. | Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “HYPOCORISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ENDEARING terms, tending to use | 1 answer |
| EUPHEMISTIC terms, tending to use | 1 answer |
| TENDING to use endearing/euphemistic terms | 1 answer |
| USING endearing terms | 1 answer |
| USING euphemistic terms | 1 answer |
| like a pet-name | 1 answer |
| tending to use endearing terms | 1 answer |
| tending to use euphemistic terms | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEAEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HYPOCORISTIC (3)
From such names it is only a step to names of one element, a characteristic feature of which is the frequent addition of an ending _-tum_ (feminine), _[=a]n_, _[=a]_, _um_, _atum_, _atija_, _sha,_ &c., most of these being "hypocoristic affixes," corresponding in a measure to modern pet-names.
Hence we get names for the two kinds of diminutives; viz., the term _meiotic_ for the true diminutives, and the term _hypocoristic_ for the diminutives of endearment.
Hence we get names for the two kinds of diminutives; _viz._, the term _meiotic_ for the true diminutives, and the term _hypocoristic_ for the diminutives of endearment.--Grimm, Deutsche Grammatik, iii.