Externet Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Gentilice is french. Gentilicio is spanish. Volksbezeichnung in german. Gentilico in portuguese. -AFAIK- Is there such word, or perfect translation/meaning in proper English?I thought having seen such word somewhere within English text, but may be confounding the spelling to look for it. I do not want to believe in on-line dictionaries for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Isn't it pretty much the same word in English (i.e. gentilic)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 It's not clear to me whether the translation would be because I don't know what word you are seeking to translate What does the word mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/gentilice/36619 says Said's own name to the Roman people, sandwiched between the first name and surname (cognomen) of the individual and indicating Roman citizenship. Aka middle name from google france https://www.google.ie/search?hl=en-IE&as_q=gentilice&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=lang_fr&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights= wikimanche http://www.wikimanche.fr/Gentilice much the same { nom de Caius Julius Cæsar,} Edited August 27, 2014 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) Based on the German translation I would say it means a classification for a population of a specific region (or ethnicity). A synonym for demonym, so to speak. I.e. "American" would be an example of a gentilic. Edited August 27, 2014 by CharonY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) https://www.google.ie/search?hl=en-IE&as_q=Volksbezeichnung&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=lang_de&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights= I think demonym from the german google search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym Actually i'm almost certain after reading http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksbezeichnung In french it's Gentilé http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentil%C3%A9 芬蘭 What language are those symbols by the way? Edited August 27, 2014 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 芬蘭 What language are those symbols by the way? Japanese or Chinese (it means Finland). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) Wonderful sometimes my computer's keyboard types in those characters can't figure why. It appears randomly as if somebody pushed a button somewhere. It seems to be able to affect any program even games. Edited August 27, 2014 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Externet Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 Thanks ! Was not that far. In English, simply, gentilic it is. And a bonus from your responses, gentilic = demonym <--- That, I did not know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Neither did I sometimes you get interesting results on the internet certainly never heard anybody here use the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 And here I was thinking it must mean a slow moving, non-erosive glacier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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