El despectivo es un afijo por medio del cual se forma una palabra derivada, usando derivación apreciativa, con significado negativo, irónico o de desprecio para designar que algo o alguien es malo, feo, sin forma, sin gracia, de mal gusto, etc. Este tipo de derivación es típico de las lenguas romances; el idioma español es especialmente rico en sufijos despectivos y los utiliza tanto en sustantivos como en adjetivos. == Sufijos despectivos en español == Algunas palabras pueden usar más de un sufijo para su forma despectiva, pero generalmente la mayoría sólo acepta un sufijo específico. Es de notar...

A pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive form. The pejorative suffix may add the sense of "a despicable example of the preceding," as in Spanish -ejo (see below). It can also convey the sense of "a despicable human having the preceding characteristic"; for instance, as in English -el (see below) or the development of the word cuckold from Old French cocu "cuckoo" + -ald, taken into Anglo-Saxon as cokewald and thus to the modern English word. Examples of the pejorative suffix...

A Penrose tiling is a non-periodic tiling generated by an aperiodic set of prototiles. Penrose tilings are named after mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose, who investigated these sets in the 1970s. The aperiodicity of the Penrose prototiles implies that a shifted copy of a Penrose tiling will never match the original. A Penrose tiling may be constructed so as to exhibit both reflection symmetry and fivefold rotational symmetry, as in the diagram at the right. A Penrose tiling has many remarkable properties, most notably: It is non-periodic, which means that it lacks any translational symmetry...