Editing Augmentative (section)

=== Italian ===

[[Italian language|Italian]] has several augmentatives:

* ''-one'', ''-ona'', found also in several English [[loanword]]s from Italian, often via French:<ref>''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', 3rd edition, ''s.v.'' -oon</ref> [[minestrone]] (< ''minestra'' 'soup'); [[provolone cheese]] (< ''provola'' 'a kind of cheese'); ''cartone'' (< ''carta'' 'paper') appears in English ''[[carton]]'' and ''[[cartoon]]''; ''balloon'' (this may have been formed in Italian, though the usual form is ''pallone'', or in French)<ref>[[Oxford English Dictionary]], ''s.v.'' ''balloon''</ref>); ''milione'' 'million' (< ''mille'' 'thousand');
Suffixes ''-accio'', ''-accia'', and ''-astro'', ''-astra'', also exist, but they are used to form [[pejorative]] words, with no properly augmentative meaning: ''coltellaccio'' (< ''coltello'' 'knife'; gives English ''[[cutlass]]''); the family name ''Carpaccio''.