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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nōmen (“name”) + gentīlicium (nominative neuter singular form of gentīlicius, “belonging to a particular Roman gens”).
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Noun
nomen gentilicium (plural nomina gentilicia)
- The name designating a Roman citizen as a member of a particular gens; a gentile name.
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name designating a Roman citizen as a member of a particular gens
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Noun
nōmen gentīlicium n (genitive nōminis gentīliciī); third declension
- name belonging to a particular gens, gentile name, also borrowed directly as nomen gentilicium
1737, Gottfried Sellius, Ad locum M. Terentii Varronis de Re rust. lib. ii. c. i. n. vii. de nominibus Romanorum brutisonis, page 13:At vero nec praenominis nominisque gentilitii, quae ad Augustum usque perdurauerat, laudata singularitas obseruata diutius legitur: namque post eius tempora multos duo nomina gentilicia habuisse inuenies.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem) with a second-declension adjective.
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