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Kind of like pequeño and chiquito?



Consuelo, this must be a matter of different usage in Spain and elsewhere, because for us these two denote different degrees of smallness. Pequeño is just small, whereas chiquito (or chiquitito ) is very small.

Thanks for your input, everyone! I gather that "little" does have this slight deprecative connotation, and thence the verb "belittle", and not "besmall"...