Meaning of gentilicious | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of gentilicial.

Examples

““The purpose of the present⟳ work⟳ is that of establishing the existence among Western Indo-Europeans of the migration period of a system of social organization based on the regularization of gentilicious organizations.””

“The correct⟳ signification is given by Elliot, Col. Lees and others, viz. that it is “a gentilicious name⟳ denoting the country whence his family spring⟳.[…]””

“I am more inclined to see⟳ in [] the oldest form⟳ because the Septuagint always translates [] as θαιμαν, and because the [] has been preserved in the gentilicious [], where it is protected by the ending.”

“With the advent of herding and agriculture a sort⟳ of male gentilicious lineage was also created, or empowered, often with herders dominating agriculturalists.[…]A complex interplay between resemblances and competences would be the basis of differences between the different regimes: gentilicious-republican, religious-philosophical, and monarchical.[…]More in general, cultures orientated to reciprocal identification, e.g. communities, descent lineages, would tend⟳ be consistent with principles and gentilicious rules, and blame⟳ the individual, thus saving system validity, while individualistic societies would tend⟳ to be consistent with experience⟳ and criticise the system around an individual rather than the individual himself.”

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