gentilician
gentilician adjective: synonym of gentilicial.
Adjective
gentilician (comparative more gentilician, superlative most gentilician)
- Synonym of gentilicial.
- There is no doubt that the Potitii worshipped Hercules according to Greek rites, as the Nautii did Minerva. These rites, however, had nothing of a national character about them, they were purely gentilician.1837, Travers Twiss, “Domestic History from the Caudine Peace Down to the Third Samnite War”, in An Epitome of Niebuhr’s History of Rome, with Chronological Tables and an Appendix, part II, Oxford...
- Once it had become inevitable to proceed on the lines of practically music States, that is, of States built on high-strung individuals, and not on organisations such as a tribe, a clan, a gens, a nation; nor on the basis of an indefinite hunger for more land; once this, the central and most...1908, Emil Reich, General History of Western Nations from 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D., page 453
- Synonyms:
- gentilicial
Noun
gentilician (plural gentilicians)
- Synonym of gentilicial.
- The order of entries is alphabetical with performance names, where evident, taking precedence over gentilicians.1996, Margaret E. Molloy, Libanius and the Dancers, Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, →ISBN, page 309
- Their first son was ostentatiously polyonymous: T. Flavius Carminius Athenagoras Claudianus, twin gentilicians and cognomina deriving from father and maternal grandfather – or perhaps we should say, maternal uncle.2005, Epigraphica Anatolica, page 80
- Synonyms:
- gentilicial
Examples of gentilician in a sentence
- In this instance, however, the prenominal abbreviation as well as the gentilician name is given; the House of the Treasure is also the House of Quintus Fulvius.1993, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, page 80:
- Manneius (3131–2); the relatively unusual gentilicians render it all but certain that they are Italians.2011, Peter Thonemann, “The nature of Roman Apamea”, in The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium, Cambridge...
- It is difficult to tell whether the formula of using gentilicians for female family members has been preserved for the Larinum inscription.2021, Elizabeth C. Robinson, Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise: The Integration of Larinum into the Roman State, Oxford University...
Synonyms of gentilician
Forms of gentilician
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more gentilician |
| superlative | most gentilician |
| Noun | |
| plural | gentilicians |
Origin of gentilician
From Latin gentīlicius + -an.
Questions about gentilician
- What does gentilician mean?
- Gentilician means synonym of gentilicial.
- How do you use gentilician in a sentence?
- In this instance, however, the prenominal abbreviation as well as the gentilician name is given; the House of the Treasure is also the House of Quintus Fulvius.
- What part of speech is gentilician?
- Gentilician can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near gentilician in the dictionary
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