Meaning

2 senses

  1. A personal name derived from a place name.

    Vito Corleone? What kind of name is Corleone? A gentilic?

  2. A demonym.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: gentilics
Singulargentilic
Pluralgentilics

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gentgentiangentilegentleA2gentlemanB1

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