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Kind of like pequeño and chiquito? How about French, German, Portuguese, etc.? Are there other pairs out there?
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> hear it bada-bing, J - glad to see that the Appalachian/Welsh dictionary's coming in so useful! 
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or like parvulus and exiguus?
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Quote:
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"... 
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Thanks for your input
You're very welcome.
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pequeño and chiquito
Spanish, as well as other Romance languages, use a lot of diminutive suffixes. In fact both -Vño and -ito are such. And, chico originally meant 'pretty' didn't it?
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