Crossword clues for gentile
gentile
- Italian artist ___ da Fabriano
- Christian Slater
- Guest at a synagogue, maybe
- Non-Jewish person
- `goy' is a derogatory word for Christians used by Jews
- In this sense `Gentile' denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
- Used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus
- A person who does not acknowledge your God
- A person who is not a member of one's own religion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gentile \Gen"tile\, a.
Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.
(Gram.) Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.
Gentile \Gen"tile\ (j[e^]n"t[imac]l), n. [L. gentilis belonging to the same clan, stock, race, people, or nation; in opposition to Roman, a foreigner; in opposition to Jew or Christian, a heathen: cf. F. gentil. See Gentle, a.]
One neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
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A person who is not Jewish; -- used in this sense by Jews.
Syn: goy[male], shiksa[female].
Note: The Hebrews included in the term g[=o]yim, or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The Christians translated g[=o]yim by the L. gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were neither Jews nor Christians. In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans. As used by Mormons, the term gentile designates any person who is not a Mormon.
Syn: Pagan; heathen. See Pagan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "noble, kind, gracious" (mid-12c. as a surname); late 14c., "of noble rank or birth, belonging to the gentry," from Late Latin gentilis "foreign, heathen, pagan," from Latin gentilis "person belonging to the same family, fellow countryman," from gentilis (adj.) "of the same family or clan," from gens (genitive gentis) "race, clan" (see gentle).
late 14c., "chivalrous person; member of the nobility;" see gentile (adj.). Also used during 14c. to mean both "one who is not a Christian" and "one who is not a Jew." The Latin word was used in Vulgate to translate Greek ethnikos, from ta ethne "the nations," which translated Hebrew ha goyim "the (non-Jewish) nations."
Wiktionary
a. 1 Non-Jewish. 2 heathen, pagan. 3 tribal, national. 4 Of or pertaining to gens or gentes. n. 1 A non-Jewish person. 2 (context grammar English) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes a belonging to or coming from a particular nation, country or city.
WordNet
adj. belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples
n. a person who does not acknowledge your God [syn: heathen, pagan, infidel]
a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus
in this sense `Gentile' denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; `goy' is a derogatory word for Christians used by Jews [syn: non-Jew, goy]
Wikipedia
Gentile (from Latin , by the French gentil, feminine: gentille, meaning of or belonging to a clan or tribe) is an ethnonym that commonly means non- Jew. Other groups that claim Israelite heritage sometimes use the term to describe outsiders. See also " Goy".
The term is used by English translators for the Hebrew and in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek word in the New Testament. The term "gentiles" is derived from Latin, used for contextual translation, and not an original Hebrew or Greek word from the Bible. The original words goy and ethnos refer to "peoples" or "nations" and is applied to both Israelites and non-Israelites in the Bible. However, in most biblical uses, it denotes nations that are politically distinct from Israel. Since most of the nations at the time of the Bible were " heathens", goy or gentile became synonymous with heathen, although their literal translation is distinct. The term gentile thus became identical to the later term Ummot ha-olam (nations of the world). Latin and later English translators selectively used the term "gentiles" when the context for the base term "peoples" or "nations" referred to non-Israelite peoples or nations in English translations of the Bible.
The Torah ( Law of Moses written in the first five books of the Bible) exhibits a passionate intolerance of the Gentile nations, alleging the Gentiles practiced "idolatry" and other things it holds to be immoral; the Torah requires the Hebrews to engage in genocide and exterminate or expel the Canaanites (otherwise known as the Phoenicians) without mercy ( Deuteronomy 6, 20), and forbade the Hebrews to intermarry with them or adopt their customs. It alleges that the Gentiles' barbarism would "contaminate" the Hebrews. Paul Copan argues that Joshua fulfilled this command.
Gentile is an Italian surname and given name.
Gentile in translations of the Bible refers to a non-Jew, a member of non-Israelite tribes.
Gentile may also refer to:
- Gentile Valley, a valley in Idaho
- Gentile (surname), an Italian surname
- Appiano Gentile, comune of the Province of Como
- Olmo Gentile, comune of the Province of Asti
- Riforma Gentile, Italian educational reform of 1923
- Sangiovese or Prugnolo Gentile, a red wine grape variety
Gentile (or Gentilis) (died 1171) was the bishop of Agrigento in Sicily from 1154 to his death. He has been described as a prélat aventureux et vagabond, an "adventurous and vagabond prelate" (Chalandon 1907).
A Tuscan by birth, he originally served as an ambassador from Géza II of Hungary, but decided to remain in Sicily after a diplomatic mission. There he became bishop of Agrigento and a noted courtier. Noted, that is, for his luxury and debauchery. He threw lavish banquets, which he used to begin a whispering campaign against Richard Palmer, Bishop of Syracuse, a rival candidate for the vacant archbishopric of Palermo (1166). Ironically, he complained of the Syracusan bishops foreign, English origins. Likewise, he convinced the Grand Protonotary Matthew of Ajello that Palmer was planning to kill him and very nearly started a blood feud.
The archbishopric was filled by Stephen du Perche, also a foreigner, and Gentile was the first ecclesiastic to join the large conspiracy against him. Nevertheless, Gentile swore an oath of fealty to Stephen just before the latter moved the court to Messina, where the conspiracy was uncovered and the "leader" of the group, Henry, Count of Montescaglioso, arrested and imprisoned. Gentile himself had avoided the court proceedings, but hurried with Matthew of Ajello back to Palermo to await Stephen's return. Once again, the conspiracy was uncovered and Gentile fled to his diocese, where the people handed him over to a royal justiciar come to arrest him. The bishop was imprisoned in San Marco d'Alunzio, the first Norman fortress on the island.
On Stephen's fall later in 1168, Gentile was released and was a guarantor of the deal whereby Stephen's life was spared should he immediately leave Sicily, which he did. The "old voluptuary", as Norwich calls him, was passed over again for the vacant archdiocese, Walter of the Mill being elected instead. Nonetheless, Gentile's penchant for conspiracy and sedition had apparently been satisfied and he took no part in any more such quarrels, dying early in 1171 and succeeded by Bartholomew.
Usage examples of "gentile".
When Abraham decided to bring Elizabeth home to meet his sickly mother, half expecting her disapproval, but hoping that by convincing her of his happiness she would understand his desire to marry a gentile, he went to see his father.
Gentile boy friend, Aircraftman Edward Somers, whose parents were old and close friends of Rachel herself.
Nor was there ever any thing of such detriment to antient history, as the supposing that the Gods of the Gentile world had been natives of the countries, where they were worshipped.
A knight of Assisi, perhaps one of those who had been in captivity with him at Perugia, was preparing to go to Apulia under orders from Count Gentile.
Constantinople, where Gentile Bellini painted the portrait of the Sultan and the Sultana his mother, now in the British Museum.
The legend goes on to tell that in the course of the presentation of the gift, an incident occurred which induced Gentile Bellini to quit the Ottoman Court with all haste.
Stephen said, is one who buys cheap and sells dear, jew or gentile, is he not?
For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.
I am confident that they gloried in their affinity to the apostle of the Gentiles.
Wherefore in the passage quoted we are to understand the prohibition to adore those images which the Gentiles made for the purpose of venerating their own gods, i.
He found he liked the wily Idumaean, doomed never to qualify as king because his mother was a gentile.
The Judaistic element was not first introduced into Gentile Christianity by the opponents of Paul, who indeed wrought in the national sense, and there is even nothing to lead to the hypothesis that the common Gentile Christian view of the Old Testament and of the law should be conceived as resulting from the efforts of Paul and his opponents, for the consequent effect here would either have been null, or a strengthening of the Jewish Christian thesis.
Exactly here is where Paul, the noble apostle to the Gentiles, broke with the Judaizing apostles, and taught a doctrine more fully developed in its historic sequence, but substantially in perfect unison with the free teachings and spirit of Jesus himself.
CAPITOLO LXXI LE TRE EROINE Tre donne di rara bellezza sopraintendevano alla cura dei feriti ed al nobile e gentile loro aspetto, noi riconosciamo le nostre eroine: Clelia, Giulia ed Irene.
Now Paul and his traveling companion, a Gentile physician named Lucanus, easily forgot the terrors of their voyage from Palestine, which had ended in shipwreck on the coast of Malta, winter there, and transfer to the ship that had brought them to Puteoli.