The word ¨Gentilice¨

[Externet]

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.

[CharonY]

Isn't it pretty much the same word in English (i.e. gentilic)?

[John Cuthber]

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?

[fiveworlds]

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

[CharonY]

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

[fiveworlds]

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

[Strange]

芬蘭

What language are those symbols by the way?

 

Japanese or Chinese (it means Finland).

[fiveworlds]

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

[Externet]

Thanks !

Was not that far. In English, simply, gentilic it is. And a bonus from your responses, gentilic = demonym <--- That, I did not know.

[fiveworlds]

Neither did I sometimes you get interesting results on the internet certainly never heard anybody here use the word.

[Ophiolite]

And here I was thinking it must mean a slow moving, non-erosive glacier.