genti

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See also: gênti and genți

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnti
  • Hyphenation: gèn‧ti

Noun

genti f pl

  1. plural of gente

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

gentī

  1. dative singular of gēns

Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese gente.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒen.ti/, (less common) /ˈd͡ʒeŋ.ti/

Noun

genti

  1. people
    Nôs sã genti di sorti porque já nacê na Macau.
    We are lucky people because we were born in Macau.

Derived terms

  • tudo genti (“everyone”, literally “all people”)

Norman

Etymology

From Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɑ̃ti/ (Jersey)
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɑ̃ti/ (Sark)

Adjective

genti m

  1. (Jersey) nice

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin gentēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

genti pl

  1. Gentiles (non-Jews)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c3
      ɔ·ríctar huili genti ꝉ drécht caich ceníuil
      till all the Gentiles are saved, or a portion of every nation
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7a2
      is díimsa tairrchet ad·cichitis genti per mé
      Of me it has been prophesied that the Gentiles will see by means of me.
  2. heathens, pagans

Declension

Masculine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative — — gentiH
Vocative — — gentiH
Accusative — — gentiH
Genitive — — genteN
Dative — — gentib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: ginte

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
genti genti
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ 		ngenti
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

genti f (plural gentis)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of gente, representing Brazil Portuguese.

Sicilian

Noun

genti f

  1. people
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