Genoese

From Genoa +‎ -ese.

• IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/

Genoese (plural Genoese)

1. An inhabitant or resident of Genoa.
   • 1656, T. B. of the Inner-Temple, Glossographia: or a Dictionary, Interpreting all such Hard Words, , London, s.v. America ():

     America. One of the four parts of the world, ſo called from Americus Veſpuſius a Florentine, who with Columbus a Genoeſe, firſt diſcover'd this Country about the yeer 1492 which is moſt aptly called the New world; .

   • 1708, The General History of the World, being an Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh. With a Continuation from the Best Historians to the Present Times. Vol. III, London, p. 249 ():

     However, John not liking a Partner in the Empire, left Conſtantinople, and retir'd to Tenedos, where he engag'd Francis Cataluze a Genoeſe to aſſiſt him, and with the Fleet under his Command, return'd to the Imperal City, compell'd Contacuzenus to quit the Empire;

   • 1741, The Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; – Volume the Second. – The Third Edition: With a Compleat Index, London, p. 6 ():

     For at preſent the Greateſt, among the Genoeſe, are in part ſubjects to the monarchy of Spain . The Spaniards tax them very high upon occaſion, and are ſo ſenſible of the advantage this gives them over the republick, that they will not ſuffer a Neapolitan to buy the lands of a Genoeſe, who muſt find a purchaſer among his own countrymen, if he has a mind to ſell.

Genoese

1. The inhabitants of Genoa, collectively.
2. The dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa

Genoese (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to Genoa.

• Genovese

• “Genoese”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Genoese, Genovese, Genoan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.