Meaning of gentilitial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. specific to a people; national
   obsolete
2. hereditary; entailed on a family
   obsolete
3. Synonym of gentilicial.

Examples

“Occasionally – as for example in the paintings of the Tomb of the Inscriptions at Tarquinii – members of the gentilitial class to which the family of the dead man belonged may also be seen dancing.”

“The tribe, as its name⟳ (phyle) shows, had an ethnical or gentilitial origin.”

“Now, as Perikhanian observes, and as Khorenats‘i’s tradition confirms, the Is-pahbudhān were probably the original holders of the office of spāhbed, and as a result⟳ came to use⟳ the title of the office as their gentilitial name⟳.”

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