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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