gentile
Meaning
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- Non-Jewish.
- Heathen, pagan.
- Non-Mormon.
- Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.
- Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
- Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.
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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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