gentilicious
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of gentilicial.
Example Sentences
- "“The purpose of the present work is that of establishing the existence among Western Indo-Europeans of the migration period of a system of social organization based on the regularization of gentilicious organizations.”"
- "The correct signification is given by Elliot, Col. Lees and others, viz. that it is “a gentilicious name denoting the country whence his family spring.[…]”"
- "I am more inclined to see in [] the oldest form because the Septuagint always translates [] as θαιμαν, and because the [] has been preserved in the gentilicious [], where it is protected by the ending."
- "With the advent of herding and agriculture a sort of male gentilicious lineage was also created, or empowered, often with herders dominating agriculturalists.[…]A complex interplay between resemblances and competences would be the basis of differences between the different regimes: gentilicious-republican, religious-philosophical, and monarchical.[…]More in general, cultures orientated to reciprocal identification, e.g. communities, descent lineages, would tend be consistent with principles and gentilicious rules, and blame the individual, thus saving system validity, while individualistic societies would tend to be consistent with experience and criticise the system around an individual rather than the individual himself."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gentīlicius.
Inflected Forms
more gentilicious (comparative)
most gentilicious (superlative)