\Pa"tri*al\, a. [L. patria fatherland, country, fr.
pater father.] (Lat. Gram.)
Derived from the name of a country, and designating an
inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. -- n.
A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of
Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. --Andrews.