gentil

From Latin gentīlis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒənˈtil]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒenˈtil]

gentil m or f (masculine and feminine plural gentils)

1. kind, courteous
2. gentile (non-Jewish)

   Antonym: jueu

• gentilesa
• gentilment

gentil m or f by sense (plural gentils)

1. gentile (non-Jew)

   Antonym: jueu

• “gentil”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gentil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “gentil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gentil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French gentil, borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.ti/

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gentil (feminine gentille, masculine plural gentils, feminine plural gentilles)

1. helpful, kind
2. pleasant, amiable, nice

   Elle reçut une petite tape gentille sur les fesses.

   She received an amiable little slap on the buttocks.

3. attractive, pretty; also derogative, in the sense of superficial, esp. in the arts
4. (idiomatic) all very well

   C'est bien gentil tout ça, mais…

   That's all very well, but...

5. well behaved, good (especially but not only about children, in the sense of good boy/girl)
6. fairly large, nice, tidy

• The word is sometimes used in derogative senses similar to the way its English equivalents are (e.g. about people considered to be lacking personality), but its positive use is much more common. In classical French it was used as a genuine compliment for social graces, which gave rise to gentilhomme (“gentleman”).

• aimable

gentil m (plural gentils)

1. pagan, heretic
2. gentile

• genre
• gens
• gentilhomme
• gentillesse
• gentiment

• “gentil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French gentil.

• IPA^(key): [ʒɛnˈtiːl], [ʒãnˈtiːl]
• Hyphenation: gen‧til

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gentil (strong nominative masculine singular gentiler, comparative gentiler, superlative am gentilsten)

1. nice, amiable

• “gentil” in Duden online
• “gentil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

gentil (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of gentile

Borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛ̃nˈtil/

gentil m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gentil or gentile)

1. noble; courteous; courtly

• French: gentil

From Old Galician-Portuguese gentil, borrowed from Latin gentīlis (“belonging to the same family”), from gēns (“clan; tribe”).

• Homophone: Gentil
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: gen‧til

gentil m or f (plural gentis)

1. gentle; amiable; kind

   Synonyms: agradável, amigável, amistoso, cortês

   Antonyms: desagradável, descortês

2. elegant

   Synonyms: belo, elegante, formoso, garboso

   Antonyms: desagradável, deselegante, feio

3. gentle; polite; respectful

• (polite): See Thesaurus:cortês

• (antonym(s) of “polite”): See Thesaurus:cortês

• gentileza
• gentílico
• gente

Borrowed from French gentile.

gentil m or n (feminine singular gentilă, masculine plural gentili, feminine and neuter plural gentile)

1. gentile

Borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).

• IPA^(key): /xenˈtil/ [xẽn̪ˈt̪il]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: gen‧til

gentil m or f (masculine and feminine plural gentiles)

1. kind, nice

   Synonym: amable

2. gentile (non-Jewish)

   Antonym: judío

gentil m or f by sense (plural gentiles)

1. gentile (non-Jew)

   Synonym: (sometimes offensive) goy

   Antonym: judío

• “gentil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• IPA^(key): /ɧaŋˈtiːl/

gentil

1. (somewhat archaic) elegant and generous
2. (somewhat archaic) elegant, fancy, posh

• schangtil

• gentil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gentil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gentil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• enligt