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Seb (given Name)
Seb is a masculine given name, often a shortened form (hypocorism) of Sebastian (name), Sebastian. It may refer to: People: * Seb Brown (born 1989), English football goalkeeper * Sebastian Coe (born 1956), British politician and former middle-distance runner * Seb Dance (born 1981), British politician * Seb Feszczur-Hatchett (born 1995), English cricketer * Seb Gotch (born 1993), Australian cricketer * Seb Hines (born 1988), English footballer * Sebastian Larsson (born 1985), Swedish footballer * Seb Rochford, Scottish drummer and bandleader * Sebastian Rodger (born 1991), British hurdler and former decathlete * Seb Sanders (born 1971), English flat race jockey * Seb Stegmann (born 1989), English rugby union player * Seb Stewart-Taylor (born 1995), English cricketer * Seb Tape (born 1992), former Australian rules footballer * Sebastian Vettel (born 1987), German racing driver, four-time Formula One world champion Fictional characters: * Seb Crossley, in the British television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. Origins and usage Etymologically, the term ''hypocorism'' is from Ancient Greek (), from (), meaning 'to call by endearing names'. The prefix refers in this case to creating a diminutive, something that is smaller in a tender or affectionate sense; the root originates in the Greek for 'to caress' or 'to treat with tokens of affection', and is related to the words () 'boy, youth' and () 'girl, young woman'. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the Morphology (linguistics), morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipping (morphology), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |