What do Costa Ricans add to a word to make it mean something smaller?

Since Spanish uses gendered nouns, a Costa Rican man is a Tico, and a Costa Rican woman is a Tica. They often add this word as a suffix in order to create a diminutive or fondness. In other words, instead of saying "blanquito" (small, white), they might say "blanquitico" or "blanquititico", which means the same thing".

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tica or tico  as in women and man so they would add a ca if its was a women and a co if it was a man to make the word masculine or feminine  

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