gentile

A collage of w:Arab citizens of IsraelArab citizens of Israel. Such citizens are largely non-Jewish, and so are gentile (sense 1).

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • A non-Jewish person.
  • A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

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Origin

  • Borrowed from French gentil ("gentile"), from Latin gentilis ("of or belonging to the same people or nation"), a semantic loan from Hebrew גוי, morphologically from gens + adjective suffix -ilis. gentle, and genteel. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

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