gentilis

From gēns (“clan, tribe”) +‎ -īlis (“-ile”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛnˈtiː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒen̪ˈt̪iː.lis]

gentīlis (neuter gentīle, adverb gentīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of or belonging to the same family or gēns: kinsman
2. of or relating to a tribe or clan: clansman, tribesman
3. of or belonging to the same people or nation
4. of slaves who bore the same name as their master
5. (poetic) foreign, exotic

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• gēns
• genticus

• Bourguignon: janti
• English: gentle, gentry, genteel
• French: gentil
• Italian: gentile
• Portuguese: gentil
• Spanish: gentil

Semantic loan from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi).

gentīlis m (genitive gentīlis); third declension

1. heathen, pagan

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

• Bourguignon: janti
• English: gentile, Gentile
• French: gentil
• Italian: gentile
• Portuguese: gentio

• Tetum: jentiu

• Spanish: gentil

• “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’s 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