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6-letter words (3 found)

ENGILT,GENTIL,TINGLE,

5-letter words (12 found)

ELINT,ENLIT,GILET,GLENT,GLINT,INGLE,INLET,INTEL,LEGIT,LENTI,LIGNE,TINGE,

4-letter words (23 found)

GEIT,GELT,GENT,GIEN,GILT,GITE,GLEI,GLEN,GLIT,LENG,LENT,LIEN,LINE,LING,LINT,LITE,NITE,TEIL,TEIN,TIGE,TILE,TINE,TING,

3-letter words (28 found)

ELT,ENG,GEL,GEN,GET,GIE,GIN,GIT,ING,LEG,LEI,LET,LIE,LIG,LIN,LIT,NEG,NET,NIE,NIL,NIT,TEG,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIG,TIL,TIN,

2-letter words (10 found)

EL,EN,ET,GI,IN,IT,LI,NE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 77 words from gentil according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gentil

gentil

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gentīlis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒənˈtil]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒenˈtil]

Adjective

gentil m or f (masculine and feminine plural gentils)

  1. kind, courteous
  2. gentile (non-Jewish)
    Antonym: jueu

Derived terms

  • gentilesa
  • gentilment

Noun

gentil m or f by sense (plural gentils)

  1. gentile (non-Jew)
    Antonym: jueu

Further reading

  • “gentil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “gentil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “gentil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “gentil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French gentil, borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɑ̃.ti/

Adjective

gentil (feminine gentille, masculine plural gentils, feminine plural gentilles)

  1. helpful, kind
  2. pleasant, amiable, nice
  3. attractive, pretty; also derogative, in the sense of superficial, esp. in the arts
  4. (idiomatic) all very well
  5. well behaved, good (especially but not only about children, in the sense of good boy/girl)
  6. fairly large, nice, tidy

Usage notes

  • The word is sometimes used in derogative senses similar to the way its English equivalents are (e.g. about people considered to be lacking personality), but its positive use is much more common. In classical French it was used as a genuine compliment for social graces, which gave rise to gentilhomme (“gentleman”).

Synonyms

  • aimable

Noun

gentil m (plural gentils)

  1. pagan, heretic
  2. gentile

Related terms

  • genre
  • gens
  • gentilhomme
  • gentillesse
  • gentiment

Further reading

  • “gentil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French gentil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʒɛnˈtiːl], [ʒãnˈtiːl]
  • Hyphenation: gen‧til

Adjective

gentil (strong nominative masculine singular gentiler, comparative gentiler, superlative am gentilsten)

  1. nice, amiable

Declension

Further reading

  • “gentil” in Duden online
  • “gentil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Adjective

gentil (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of gentile

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛ̃nˈtil/

Adjective

gentil m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gentil or gentile)

  1. noble; courteous; courtly

Descendants

  • French: gentil

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese gentil, borrowed from Latin gentīlis (“belonging to the same family”), from gēns (“clan; tribe”).

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: Gentil
  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
  • Hyphenation: gen‧til

Adjective

gentil m or f (plural gentis)

  1. gentle; amiable; kind
    Synonyms: agradável, amigável, amistoso, cortês
    Antonyms: desagradável, descortês
  2. elegant
    Synonyms: belo, elegante, formoso, garboso
    Antonyms: desagradável, deselegante, feio
  3. gentle; polite; respectful

Synonyms

  • (polite): See Thesaurus:cortês

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "polite"): See Thesaurus:cortês

Related terms

  • gentileza
  • gentílico
  • gente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gentile.

Adjective

gentil m or n (feminine singular gentilă, masculine plural gentili, feminine and neuter plural gentile)

  1. gentile

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gentīlis, from gēns (“Roman clan”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xenˈtil/ [xẽn̪ˈt̪il]
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Syllabification: gen‧til

Adjective

gentil m or f (masculine and feminine plural gentiles)

  1. kind, nice
    Synonym: amable
  2. gentile (non-Jewish)
    Antonym: judío

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

gentil m or f by sense (plural gentiles)

  1. gentile (non-Jew)
    Antonym: judío

Related terms

Further reading

  • “gentil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɧaŋˈtiːl/

Adjective

gentil

  1. (somewhat archaic) elegant and generous; posh, stylish; generous

Inflection

References

  • gentil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • gentil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • gentil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • enligt

Source: wiktionary.org