Etymology

gentilic

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Today it means: Tribal or national. Full definition →

Latin gentilis
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  1. Latin · derived fromgentilis“of a clan or gens”
  2. English todaygentilic

From Latin gentilis (“of a clan or gens”) + English suffix -ic.

Words from the same roots

Latingentilis all →

gentlegentilegenteel

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.