gentile
noun/ˈdʒentaɪl/
/ˈdʒentaɪl/
(also Gentile)
- a person who is not JewishWord Originlate Middle English: from Latin gentilis ‘of a family or nation, of the same clan’ (used in the Vulgate, Latin version of the Bible prepared in the late 4th century, to refer to non-Jews), from gens, gent- ‘family, race’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’.
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