Gentoo

== English == === Etymology === Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from Portuguese gentio (“heathen”) (compare gentile (“pagan”)). === Noun === Gentoo (plural Gentoos) (historical) A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu. 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p. 133,[1] The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat. The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), a species of penguin. === Proper noun === Gentoo (historical) The Telugu language. === Further reading === Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “Gentoo”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 368. === Anagrams === gone to