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19-592: Zamboanguita was established in 1866. Modest compared to the 6th largest city in the Philippines with 98 barangays, Zamboanguita has only 10 barangays. A town rooted in history and replete with natural resources, Zamboanguita derived its name from an incident involving a coguita (octopus). Long before the Spaniards set foot in Negros Island, fishermen from as far as Mindanao would visit the yet unnamed town and benefit from

38-524: A pejorative sense to denote that someone or something is weak or childish. For example, one of the last Western Roman emperors was Romulus Augustus , but his name was diminutivized to "Romulus Augustulus" to express his powerlessness. In many languages, diminutives are word forms that are formed from the root word by affixation . In most languages, diminutives can also be formed as multi-word constructions such as " Tiny Tim ", or "Little Dorrit". In most languages that form diminutives by affixation, this

57-563: A final-clipped stem retaining the functional morpheme: maths (mathematics), specs (spectacles); (b) contractions due to a gradual process of elision under the influence of rhythm and context. Thus, fancy (fantasy), ma'am (madam), and fo'c'sle may be regarded as accelerated forms. Clipped forms are also used in compounds . One part of the original compound most often remains intact. Examples are: cablegram ( cable tele gram ), op art ( op tical art ), org-man ( org anization man ), linocut ( lino leum cut ). Sometimes both halves of

76-407: A tree and “isab-ong ang coguita” (hang the octopus).” Since then, every time an octopus was caught, it was hung on that particular tree. The local people eventually started calling the place “Sab-ongan ug coguita.” When the Spaniards descended on the town, they called the town “Zamboangaguita” and later on it was shortened to “Zamboanguita”. On the other hand, local stories that circulated among

95-502: Is a productive part of the language. For example, in Spanish gordo can be a nickname for someone who is overweight, and by adding an -ito suffix, it becomes gordito which is more affectionate. Examples for a double diminutive having two diminutive suffixes are in Polish dzwon → dzwonek → dzwoneczek or Italian casa → casetta → casettina ). In English,

114-424: Is a word-formation device used to express such meanings. A double diminutive is a diminutive form with two diminutive suffixes rather than one. Diminutives are often employed as nicknames and pet names when speaking to small children and when expressing extreme tenderness and intimacy to an adult. The opposite of the diminutive form is the augmentative . In some contexts, diminutives are also employed in

133-401: Is also different from back-formation , which proceeds by (pseudo-) morpheme rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and word class from its source. In English, clipping may extend to contraction , which mostly involves the elision of a vowel that is replaced by an apostrophe in writing. According to Hans Marchand , clippings are not coined as words belonging to

152-404: Is limited to narrower contexts, they remain outside the standard register . Many, such as mani and pedi for manicure and pedicure or mic / mike for microphone , occupy a middle ground in which their appropriate register is a subjective judgment, but succeeding decades tend to see them become more widely used. According to Irina Arnold  [ ru ] , clipping mainly consists of

171-447: Is the word lehit , which derives from להתראות lehitraot , meaning "see you, goodbye". Initial (or fore) clipping retains the final part of the word. Examples: bot (robot), chute (parachute), roach (cockroach), gator (alligator), phone (telephone), pike (turnpike), varsity (university), net (Internet). Words with the middle part of the word left out are few. They may be further subdivided into two groups: (a) words with

190-515: The Schools Division of Negros Oriental . Elementary schools: High schools: Private schools: Diminutive A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment , and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone. A diminutive form ( abbreviated DIM )

209-680: The binary noun -s of pajamas/pyjamas) or jammies (adding diminutive -ie ). In a final clipping, the most common type in English, the beginning of the prototype is retained. The unclipped original may be either a simple or a composite. Examples include ad and advert (advertisement), cable (cablegram), doc (doctor), exam (examination), fax (facsimile), gas (gasoline), gym (gymnastics, gymnasium), memo (memorandum), mutt (muttonhead), pub (public house), pop (popular music), and clit (clitoris). An example of apocope in Israeli Hebrew

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228-679: The core lexicon of a language. They typically originate as synonyms within the jargon or slang of an in-group , such as schools, army, police, and the medical profession. For example, exam (ination), math (ematics), and lab (oratory) originated in school slang ; spec (ulation) and tick (et = credit) in stock-exchange slang; and vet (eran) and cap (tain) in army slang. Clipped forms can pass into common usage when they are widely useful, becoming part of standard language, which most speakers would agree has happened with math / maths , lab , exam , phone (from telephone ), fridge (from refrigerator ), and various others. When their usefulness

247-960: The alteration of meaning is often conveyed through clipping , making the words shorter and more colloquial . Diminutives formed by adding affixes in other languages are often longer and (as colloquial) not necessarily understood. While many languages apply a grammatical diminutive to nouns , a few – including Slovak, Dutch , Spanish , Romanian , Latin , Polish , Bulgarian , Czech , Russian and Estonian – also use it for adjectives (in Polish: słodki → słodziutki → słodziuteńki ) and even other parts of speech (Ukrainian спати → спатки → спатоньки — to sleep or Slovak spať → spinkať → spinuškať — to sleep, bežať → bežkať — to run). Diminutives in isolating languages may grammaticalize strategies other than suffixes or prefixes. In Mandarin Chinese , for example, other than

266-446: The bounty of its rich fishing grounds – from its small tugnos (juvenile gobies) to the large iho (shark) in nearby Apo Island. One day, a group of Moro fishermen fishing in the area found a coguita caught in their fishing net, which they then separated from their fish catch as it had tentacles and had no gills. The leader of the Moro group then ordered one of his men to go to the beach, find

285-416: The following types: Final and initial clipping may be combined and result in curtailed words with the middle part of the prototype retained, which usually includes the syllable with primary stress . Examples: fridge (refrigerator), Polly ( Apollinaris ), rona ( coronavirus ), shrink ( head-shrinker ), tec (detective); also flu (which omits the stressed syllable of influenza ), jams (retaining

304-415: The nominal prefix 小- xiǎo- and nominal suffixes -儿/-兒 -r and -子 -zi , reduplication is a productive strategy, e.g., 舅 → 舅舅 and 看 → 看看 . In formal Mandarin usage, the use of diminutives is relatively infrequent, as they tend to be considered to be rather colloquial than formal. Some Wu Chinese dialects use a tonal affix for nominal diminutives; that is, diminutives are formed by changing

323-462: The north/east is the municipality of Dauin . Zamboanguita is politically subdivided into 10 barangays . Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios . Poverty incidence of Zamboanguita Source: Philippine Statistics Authority It is part of the 3rd District of Negros Oriental . Current elected officials of Zamboanguita (2022): The public schools in the town of Zamboanguita are administered by two school districts under

342-404: The tone of the word. Clipping (morphology) In linguistics , clipping , also called truncation or shortening , is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound . Clipping differs from abbreviation , which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping

361-427: The town folks mentioned that Zamboanguita, with its Spanish diminutive of -ita, (meaning "little Zamboanga") acquired its name from its neighbor down south across the sea, Zamboanga City . 28 kilometres (17 mi) from Dumaguete , Zamboanguita is at the southern tip of the province of Negros Oriental and across from the island province of Siquijor. To the west of Zamboanguita is the municipality of Siaton , and to

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