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gentile¹
- /ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
Rhymes with -aɪl
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), morphologically from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, genteel, jaunty, and Gentoo. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.
adjective Gentile
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Non-Jewish.
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Similar: non-Jewish, goyish, Goyish
- Heathen, pagan. [John] Bale, following Annius [Annio da Viterbo], argued that druids, bards and other ‘gentile’ (pagan) priests had preserved from Noah’s time the memory of a true religion that believed ‘that there is one God, immortal and incomprehensible’ (‘unum esse Deum immortalem, et incomprehensibilem ...’).
- Non-Mormon. The Justice or injustice of such a principle in law, I leave for them who made it, the United States; Suffice it say the law was just as good for a the Saints as for the Gentiles, [...]
- Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national. As distinct from the old gentile order, the state, first, divides its subjects according to territory. As we have seen, the old gentile associations, built upon and held together by ties of blood, became inadequate, largely because they presupposed that the members were bound to a given territory, a
- Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes. The council was the great feature of ancient society, Asiatic, European and American, from the institution of the gens in savagery to civilization. […] As the council sprang from the gentile organization the two institutions have come down together through the ages. The Council of Chiefs represents
- Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country. Gentile verbs are so denominated because derived from gentile nouns, or from proper nouns, or adnouns: they relate to countries, and to places generally, or to men: the following are examples: Greecise, Latinise, Anglicise, […] Aristotelise, Sophoclise, Shakesperianise. Gentile verbs in their radica
noun gentiles · Gentile
- A non-Jewish person. And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob, and to restore the preserued of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my saluation, vnto the end of the earth.
- A non-Mormon person.
- A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country. Gentiles are denominative nouns denoting belonging to or coming from a particular country, nation, or city. Gentiles are formed from proper nouns by secondary suffixes.
Gentile²
- /ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
Where it comes from
From French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), from gēns (“clan, tribe”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”).
noun Gentiles · gentile
- Alternative letter-case form of gentile (a non-Jewish person).
- A non-Mormon person (including Jews).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: goy, pagan, heathen, infidel, non-jew, goyim, idolater, agnostic, nonmember, stranger, alien, foreigner, outsider, nonbeliever, unbeliever, secularist
Translations
Every language
adj non-Jewish
| Español | gentil |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 非犹太人的, 外邦 wàibāng |
| हिन्दी | अन्यजाति anyajāti |
| Português | gentio |
| Français | gentil |
| Deutsch | nichtjüdisch, heidnisch |
| Italiano | gentile |
| Ελληνικά | εθνικός ethnikós |
| Русский | неевре́й nejevréj, гой goj |
| العربية | أُمِّي ʔummī |
| עברית | גוי goy |
adj heathen, pagan
| Español | pagano |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 异教徒 yìjiàotú |
| Português | gentio |
| Deutsch | heidnisch |
| Română | păgân |
| Русский | язы́чник jazýčnik |
noun non-Jewish person
| Español | gentil |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 外邦人 wàipāngrén |
| हिन्दी | अन्यजाति anyajāti |
| Français | gentil |
| Deutsch | Goj, Nichtjude, Nichtjüdin, Heide, Heidin |
| Русский | гой goj |
noun kind of noun
| Deutsch | Gentile |
|---|
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title = {gentile},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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