Many times women needed unofficial names to differenciate them between their relatives, this was often done with the help of suffixes, for example the diminutive suffix "illa/ila" (alternatively "ulla/ula" or "olla/ola") meaning "small" or "little" was used often, for example: Jul"illa" for a young Julia, Drus"illa" for a young Drusa. The suffix dervived from the word "ulla" which was the word for a little pit and could be used to denote that the woman in question was a younger relative of someone with the same name, that she was still a little girl, or simply implying affection, for example Cicero's daughter Tullia was called by him "Tulli"ola"" even as an adult despite not having any older sisters or other notable female relatives. Another suffix used was "ina/inna" which would imply "relative of", for example "Agripp"ina" was the "daughter of" Agrippa" or "Messal"ina" was the "daughter of" Messala". The "ina" suffix was often used for cognomina which ended in "a", meaning that there was no generic way to feminize them.