2. Adjective. Describing the inhabitants of a particular place; demonymic ¹
3. Noun. A personal name derived from a place name. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gentilic
1. tribal [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentilic
Literary usage of Gentilic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"The name appears in regular gentilic form as Sim'oni, ... was known as an
alternative form of the gentilic 6 (cp WRS, ..."
2. Biblia by Charles Henry Stanley Davis (1904)
"The gentilic adjective, however, formed from the name of Carchemish does not
terminate in -nas. For reasons too detailed to be given here, the suffix can be ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"A psychological unity is not necessarily opposed to H gentilic unity. U is
perfectly open to any theorist to combine the two by assuming that tht language ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1901)
"The ideograph £> which also expresses the patronymic and gentilic relation, must
accordingly be pronounced in certain cases ya.% And this, too, will be the ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"The name appears in regular gentilic form as aim'oni, ... 0, however, everywhere
represents the gentilic by the noun form ..."
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