Re: Tudrus

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 67043
Date: 2011-01-07

At 1:34:39 PM on Thursday, January 6, 2011, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> -ico is diminutive in Spanish and Italian but I don't know
> when it kicked in nor its provenance

I imagine that both are from Latin <-icus>, though I don't
know by what path the adjective suffix became a diminutive
suffix.

Brian