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English

Etymology

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Noun

mormon (plural mormons)

1. Any of various dark-coloured Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.

Czech

Noun

mormon m

1. Mormon (member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Further reading

• mormon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• mormon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Directly or ultimately from English Mormon.

Noun

mormon c (singular definite mormonen, plural indefinite mormoner)

1. Mormon

Declension

Derived terms

• mormonsk

References

• “mormon” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Mormon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.m??/

Adjective

mormon (feminine singular mormone, masculine plural mormons, feminine plural mormones)

1. Mormon

Further reading

• “mormon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Directly or ultimately from English Mormon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

mormon m (definite singular mormonen, indefinite plural mormoner, definite plural mormonene)

1. (religion) a Mormon (adherent of Mormonism)

Derived terms

• mormonsk

References

• “mormon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Directly or ultimately from English Mormon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

mormon m (definite singular mormonen, indefinite plural mormonar, definite plural mormonane)

1. (religion) a Mormon (adherent of Mormonism)

Derived terms

• mormonsk

References

• “mormon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French mormon

Noun

mormon m (plural mormoni)

1. Mormon

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?rmo?n/
• Hyphenation: mor?mon

Noun

mòrm?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. Mormon (adherent of Mormonism)

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• Gentile

Etymology

Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gent?lis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), a semantic loan from Hebrew ????, morphologically from g?ns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -?lis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle and genteel. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???nta?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Hyphenation: gen?tile

Adjective

gentile (not comparable)

1. Non-Jewish.
2. Heathen, pagan.
3. Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.
4. Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
5. (grammar) Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.

Derived terms

• gentilic
• gentilical
• gentilically
• gentilicism

Related terms

• genteel

Translations

Noun

gentile (plural gentiles)

1. A non-Jewish person.
2. (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

Hypernyms

• (grammar): noun

Translations

See also

• (grammar): patronymic

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??en?ti.le/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gent?lis.

Adjective

gentile (plural gentili)

1. kind, courteous
2. gentle
3. lovely

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• gentile¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin gent?lis (“heathen, pagan”).

Noun

gentile m (plural gentili)

1. gentile (a non-Jewish person)

Derived terms

• gentilesco
• gentilesimo

Related terms

• gentilità

Adjective

gentile (plural gentili)

1. (literary) gentile (non-Jewish)

Further reading

• gentile² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?en?ti?.le/, [??n??t?i????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d??en?ti.le/, [d???n??t?i?l?]

Adjective

gent?le

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of gent?lis

References

• gentile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Swedish

Adjective

gentile

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of gentil.