gentilitial
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Synonym of gentilicial.
— The easy to remember and pronounce disyllabic gentilitials such as “Aztec,” “Toltec,” “Olmec,” and “Mixtec,” were readily accepted and have become so deeply entrenched that any attempt to replace them with putatively technically more correct terms would seem hopelessly doomed.
形容词 adj.
- specific to a people; national
- hereditary; entailed on a family
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Synonym of gentilicial.
— 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.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Latin gentīlitius + -al. See gentile.
词源 2
From Latin gentīlitius + -al. See gentile.
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