gentilitials

Noun

gentilitial (plural gentilitials)

1. Synonym of gentilicial.
   • The easy to remember and pronounce disyllabic gentilitials such as “Aztec,” “Toltec,” “Olmec,” and “Mixtec,” were readily accepted and have become so deeply entrenched that any attempt to replace them with putatively technically more correct terms would seem hopelessly doomed.1982, H. B. Nicholson, “The Mixteca-Puebla Concept Revisited”, in The Art and Iconography of late Post-Classic Central Mexico: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 22nd and 23rd, 1977, Washington...

   Synonyms:

   gentilicial

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