Panettone is an Italian type of sweet bread and fruitcake, originally from Milan, Italy, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe
Panettone is an Italian type of sweet bread and fruitcake, originally from Milan, Italy, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe
This is why I love romance languages. Diminutive to make the original word refer to something smaller and then an augmentative to make it big again. So basically this translates to “a large small loaf of bread”. Love it.
Slavic languages do this too, augmentative forms are quite common when emphasizing the size and bulkiness of something
Many Slavic languages also have double diminutives, where you apply multiple diminutive suffixes onto a word
For example, in Polish, dzwoń (bell) becomes dzwonek, which can then become dzwoneczek
Man I love languages. I really should learn a slavic one. The extent of my knowledge is swear words like do prdele and kurwa.