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Latin
Etymology
From gentīlis (“of or belonging to a gens”) + -icius (suffix forming adjectives).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Adjective
gentīlicius (feminine gentīlicia, neuter gentīlicium); first/second-declension adjective
- belonging to a particular Roman gens
- tribal, national
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “gentilicius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gentilicius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gentīlĭcĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 708/3.
- “gentīlicius” on page 760/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “gentilicius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 466/2
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 555
- ^ Leumann, Manu. 1918. Die Adjektiva auf -ī̆cius. Glotta 9. 134.