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单词 gentilitial
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gentilitialadj.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛntᵻˈlɪʃl/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛn(t)əˈlɪʃ(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s gentilitiall, 1600s gentilicial, 1600s–1800s gentilitial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin gentīlītius , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin gentīlītius (see gentilitious adj.) + -al suffix1. Compare later gentilitian adj., gentilitious adj.
1.
a. Of or relating to a particular lineage or gens (gens n. a); familial. Cf. gentile adj. 4.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [adjective]
gentilitial1602
gentilitious1646
clannish1791
gentile1800
septal1842
1602 A. Copley Another Let. to Dis-iesuited Kinseman 32 The gentilitiall Puntoes he stands on being but a Coopers sonne.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Oo4 The Casimires (for that is the gentilitiall name of the Count Palatines familie).
1786 J. C. Walker Hist. Mem. Irish Bards App. 10 The Irish preceded their neighbours in gentilitial armories.
1828 J. Hunter Hist. South Yorks. I. 32 Writers upon gentilitial insignia.
1949–51 Traditio 7 179 The Lapiritids claimed Chinese imperial descent and the gentilitial title of Čen-Bakur (later Jambakur).
2011 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 101 238 The purpose of gentilitial inheritance was to preserve family property.
b. Belonging to or characteristic of a particular nation or people; national, tribal. Cf. gentile adj. 3a. Obsolete.
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the world > people > nations > [adjective] > national
ledelyc1275
ledishc1275
public1427
gentilea1522
national1591
gentilitious1632
gentilitian1645
gentilitial1650
gentilic1863
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 84 This figure of the Nose is now become gentilitial and native to the Persians.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. ii. v. ii. 370 The first [relation of God to the Hebrew nation] was that of a tutelary Deity, gentilitial and local.
1860 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 394 The law of Nations, like that of Nature, was long divine; a strife of gentilitial gods who absorbed each other gradually.
c. Grammar. Of a noun, adjective, etc.: indicating the place, nation, tribe, etc., with which a person or thing is affiliated. Also of a suffix, etc.: forming words which indicate this. Cf. gentile adj. 3b. rare.
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1877 G. Rawlinson Origin Nations ii. v. 218 Pathros, the local name, from which the gentilitial noun ‘Pathrusim’ is formed.
1971 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 1. 2 In Semitic languages, except Akkadian, the gentilitial adjectives are formed by adding a suffix -i to the words from which they derive.
1998 Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 42 178 The Amharic nisbe or gentilitial suffix.
2. Of gentle birth; belonging to or characteristic of the gentry. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [adjective] > belonging to gentry
genteel1628
gentilitial1798
country1827
gentish1994
1798 S. E. Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini II. viii. 251 To the 'squires, and such as thought themselves of the gentilitial order, neither Fitz-Albini, nor Miss St. Leger, owed any attentions.
a1875 R. Davies Walks through York (1880) 133 One of the most antient and distinguished of our Yorkshire gentilitial families.
1960 East & West 11 215/2 The influence of gentilitial charisma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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