gentilicius

Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. belonging to a particular Roman gens
  2. tribal, national

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative gentīlicius gentīlicia gentīlicium gentīliciī gentīliciae gentīlicia
genitive gentīliciī gentīliciae gentīliciī gentīliciōrum gentīliciārum gentīliciōrum
dative gentīliciō gentīliciae gentīliciō gentīliciīs
accusative gentīlicium gentīliciam gentīlicium gentīliciōs gentīliciās gentīlicia
ablative gentīliciō gentīliciā gentīliciō gentīliciīs
vocative gentīlicie gentīlicia gentīlicium gentīliciī gentīliciae gentīlicia

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Catalan: gentilici
  • → English: gentilicious ⇒ gentilician, gentilicial
  • → French: gentilice
  • → Italian: gentilizio
  • → Portuguese: gentilício
  • → Spanish: gentilicio

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
  1. ^ Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 555
  2. ^ Leumann, Manu. 1918. Die Adjektiva auf -ī̆cius. Glotta 9. 134.
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