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What the 'ell? Testicle is a diminutive!
1Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.)
|September 12, 2018
Abstract:
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.