Big news to make sense of words I encounter each day: In Italian there is a noun and its magnified & minimized forms: Casa, Casina, Casona But there are also cutifiers & uglifiers, too! Casetta/Casuccia, Casaccia Pentola (pot) Pentolino (little pot) Pentolone (cauldron) Pentolaccia (piñata game, ugly pot to break) Libro (book) Libretto (small) Librino (very small) Libricino (cute small) Librone (big) Libraccio (pulp/trash) -accio is bad, -uccio is cute These decline for gender, number, etc