Abstract
The diminutive, usually classified as an indicator of diminutive size, can have other uses beyond making reference to an object (animate or inanimate) with reduced physical size proportions in comparison to another one. If on one hand, we have 'portinha' as a small door, on the other, 'amarelinha' is not an 'amarelo pequeno', but a word of its own, with an autonomous meaning unrelated to …