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English

Alternative forms

• Gentile

Etymology

Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gent?lis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), a semantic loan from Hebrew ????, morphologically from g?ns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -?lis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle and genteel. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???nta?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Hyphenation: gen?tile

Adjective

gentile (not comparable)

1. Non-Jewish.
2. Heathen, pagan.
3. Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.
4. Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
5. (grammar) Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.

Derived terms

• gentilic
• gentilical
• gentilically
• gentilicism

Related terms

• genteel

Translations

Noun

gentile (plural gentiles)

1. A non-Jewish person.
2. (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

Hypernyms

• (grammar): noun

Translations

See also

• (grammar): patronymic

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??en?ti.le/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gent?lis.

Adjective

gentile (plural gentili)

1. kind, courteous
2. gentle
3. lovely

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• gentile¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin gent?lis (“heathen, pagan”).

Noun

gentile m (plural gentili)

1. gentile (a non-Jewish person)

Derived terms

• gentilesco
• gentilesimo

Related terms

• gentilità

Adjective

gentile (plural gentili)

1. (literary) gentile (non-Jewish)

Further reading

• gentile² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?en?ti?.le/, [??n??t?i????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d??en?ti.le/, [d???n??t?i?l?]

Adjective

gent?le

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of gent?lis

References

• gentile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Swedish

Adjective

gentile

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of gentil.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Short for gentleman.

Noun

gent (plural gents)

1. (colloquial) A gentleman.

Related terms

• genteel
• gentile
• gentle

Etymology 2

From Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).

Adjective

gent (comparative more gent, superlative most gent)

1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.

   • A knyght [who] was fair and gent.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].

2. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant

   • Her body gent and small.

Etymology 3

Noun

gent (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.

Anagrams

• Teng

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gentem, accusative of g?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??ent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

gent f (uncountable)

1. people, folk

Derived terms

• gentada
• gentalla
• genteta

Further reading

• “gent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “gent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French gent, from Latin gens, gentem. Cf. gens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

gent f (plural gents or gens)

1. (obsolete) people, nation
2. (obsolete) tribe
3. company, those who are in accompaniment

Adjective

gent (feminine singular gente, masculine plural gents, feminine plural gentes)

1. (obsolete or humorous) nice, pleasant, or noble, speaking of a person or thing

Further reading

• “gent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From earlier Ganda; if from Celtic, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kom-dati (“confluence”), from Proto-Indo-European *kom-d?h?-ti- (“confluence”), equivalent to *?óm + *d?eh?- (similar to the town Condivincum); or related to the Celtic goddess Gontia. The name could otherwise be of non-Indo-European origin.

Noun

gent ?

1. Ghent (a city in modern Belgium)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Gent

References

Further reading

• “ghent”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Old French

Pronunciation

• (early) IPA^(key): /?d?ent/
• (by 13th century) IPA^(key): /?d?ant/
• (Late Old French) IPA^(key): /??ant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Etymology 1

From Latin gentem, accusative singular of g?ns. The nominative singular descends from a regularized form: oblique stem gent- and 3rd declension nominative -is.

Noun

gent f (oblique plural genz or gentz, nominative singular gent, nominative plural genz or gentz)

1. people, population

   la Franceise gent - the French people

Descendants

• French: gens
• Norman: gens
• Walloon: djin

Etymology 2

From Latin genitus (“begotten”), perfect passive participle of gign?.

Adjective

gent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gente)

1. fair, beautiful, handsome
2. brave and beautiful
3. polite

   Synonym: gentil

Usage notes

The Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français points out the difficulty of translating this word into modern languages. The adjective describes an ideal person in a given context: brave warriors in chansons de geste, loyal good men in tales of courtly love, polite people in all occasions, who are always handsome or beautiful. It also notes the meaning 'well-born, aristocratic', mentioned in some dictionaries of Old French, is extremely rarely attested.

Declension

Related terms

• gençor (comparative), also spelled gensor

Swedish

Adjective

gent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of gen.

Yola

Noun

gent

1. Alternative form of geint