genti

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

• tigne, tinge

Latin

Noun

gentī

1. dative singular of gēns

Macanese

Alternative forms

• gente, (archaic) chente

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡʲen͈ʲtʲi]

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. 5^c3

     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. 7^a2

     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

Mutation of genti

radical	lenition	nasalization
genti	genti pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngenti

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “genti”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Noun

genti f (plural gentis)

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

Sicilian

Noun

genti f

1. people