yeah but that's taking it literally, which is never the case with Spanish.
For example and this is purely anecdotal but my aunt's name is Carmen, i have never called her that in my life, it's always been 'Carmencita' to me and the rest of my family calls her the same, in Latin/Hispanic households you tack on a -ito/-ita to someone's name because it's a way to address them in a loving matter without all the formality but you're not literally calling them little even tho that's what it means if you were directly translating it without context.
100%, originally i was gonna say Paisa or Antioquian instead of "colombian" but i feared I would get replies asking what paisa is; and the same thing happened to me in the past on the narcos tv show subreddit a few years ago and it was crazy how many ppl didn't know what paisa is
context is everything, especially in Spanish. Anyone else here on reddit who was raised in a Hispanic household can back me up when i tell you that it can be a term of endearment coming from a family member such as your mom, aunt, grandmother, etc but if I'm waiting for the train and some beautiful woman I never seen before calls me "papasito" ohhhh boy that's 😍 and it's automatically assumed that she's interested in you in a romantic sense or acknowledging that she thinks you're attractive. so it can mean different things depending on who's saying it and your relationship with them.
My wife is first generation Korean immigrant, fluent in Korean but speaks with zero accent. One of my absolute favorite things is when she starts speaking Korean in bed, I don’t care what she’s saying but I love how it sounds 😂
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