gentilis

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From gēns (“clan, tribe”) +‎ -īlis (“-ile”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɛnˈtiː.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒenˈtiː.lis] ==== Adjective ==== gentīlis (neuter gentīle, adverb gentīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective of or belonging to the same family or gēns: kinsman of or relating to a tribe or clan: clansman, tribesman of or belonging to the same people or nation of slaves who bore the same name as their master (poetic) foreign, exotic ===== Declension ===== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== gēns genticus ===== Descendants ===== Bourguignon: janti English: gentle, gentry, genteel French: gentil Italian: gentile Portuguese: gentil Spanish: gentil === Etymology 2 === Semantic loan from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi). ==== Noun ==== gentīlis m (genitive gentīlis); third declension heathen, pagan ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī). ===== Descendants ===== Bourguignon: janti English: gentile, Gentile French: gentil Italian: gentile Portuguese: gentio Tetum: jentiu Spanish: gentil === References === “gentilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gentilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "gentilis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “gentilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. gentilis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016