gentilis

Latin

adj
Definitions
  • of or belonging to the same family or gēns (gēns): kinsman
  • of or relating to a tribe or clan: clansman, tribesman
  • of or belonging to the same people or nation
  • of slaves who bore the same name as their master
  • (poetic) foreign, exotic

Etymology

Suffix from Latin gēns (tribe, clan, a race, nation, gens, n-g, la, family, race, people, kind) root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵenh₁-

Gloss

produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear

Concept
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Modern world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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