gentilicious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gentīlicius.

Adjective

gentilicious (comparative more gentilicious, superlative most gentilicious)

1. Synonym of gentilicial
   • 1950 April, Joshua Whatmough, “Francesco Rodriguez Adrados. El sistema gentilicio decimal de los Indoeuropeos occidentales y los origines de Roma. Madrid, 1948. Pp. 185. (Manuales y Anejos de Emerita, VII.)”, in American Journal of Philology, volume LXXI, number 2 (whole 282), Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, page 220:

     “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.”

   • 1967, Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, Mughals in India: A Bibliographical Survey, volume I (Manuscripts), Asia Publishing House, page 252:

     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. […]”

   • 1992, Florentino García Martínez, Qumran and Apocalyptic: Studies on the Aramaic Texts from Qumran, Leiden, New York, N.Y., Köln: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, page 122:

     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.

   • 2007, G. Sacco, “Error, performance, human systems”, in Philip D. Bust, editor, Contemporary Ergonomics 2007: Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Ergonomics (CE2007), 17-19 April 2007, Nottingham, UK, Routledge, published 2017, pages 74–75:

     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.