"iminutive" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Back formation from diminutive.",
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      "expansion": "iminutive (plural not attested)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, A Faber, RD King, “Yiddish and the settlement of Ashkenazic Jewry”, in Mankind quarterly, volume 24, page 393:",
          "text": "What is not common, however, in German dialects is the existence of an intensive diminutive (or, as it sometimes is called, an iminutive) having the shape -ele.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Neil G. Jacobs, Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction:",
          "text": "Faber and King note that Yiddish and Bavarian both have an \"intensive diminutive,\" i.e., a second degree of diminution (iminutive); thus, StY štot 'city,' štetl 'market town', štetɘlɘ 'little market town [endearing].'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language:",
          "text": "The main point in the diminutive and iminutive system is, however, not only that elements of two dialectally different subsystems of German have fused in the German component.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lily Kahn, Colloquial Yiddish:",
          "text": "In addition to the diminutive, Yiddish has an 'iminutive', which is used to indicate that something is even smaller (as well as cuter, more lovable, or possibly more inferior) than a diminutive noun.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In Yiddish, a second-degree or more intensive diminutive form."
      ],
      "id": "en-iminutive-en-noun-ucsd3Mm9",
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          "Yiddish",
          "Yiddish"
        ],
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar, rare) In Yiddish, a second-degree or more intensive diminutive form."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-plural",
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "iminutiv",
          "sense": "second-degree diminutive in Yiddish",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "אימינוטיוו"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "iminutive"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Back formation from diminutive.",
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "iminutive (plural not attested)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unattested plurals",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, A Faber, RD King, “Yiddish and the settlement of Ashkenazic Jewry”, in Mankind quarterly, volume 24, page 393:",
          "text": "What is not common, however, in German dialects is the existence of an intensive diminutive (or, as it sometimes is called, an iminutive) having the shape -ele.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Neil G. Jacobs, Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction:",
          "text": "Faber and King note that Yiddish and Bavarian both have an \"intensive diminutive,\" i.e., a second degree of diminution (iminutive); thus, StY štot 'city,' štetl 'market town', štetɘlɘ 'little market town [endearing].'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language:",
          "text": "The main point in the diminutive and iminutive system is, however, not only that elements of two dialectally different subsystems of German have fused in the German component.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lily Kahn, Colloquial Yiddish:",
          "text": "In addition to the diminutive, Yiddish has an 'iminutive', which is used to indicate that something is even smaller (as well as cuter, more lovable, or possibly more inferior) than a diminutive noun.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In Yiddish, a second-degree or more intensive diminutive form."
      ],
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          "grammar",
          "grammar"
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          "Yiddish",
          "Yiddish"
        ],
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar, rare) In Yiddish, a second-degree or more intensive diminutive form."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-plural",
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "iminutiv",
      "sense": "second-degree diminutive in Yiddish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אימינוטיוו"
    }
  ],
  "word": "iminutive"
}