gentile

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Hyphenated as
gen‧tile
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
Etymology

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

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