gentile
noun /ˈdʒentaɪl/
/ˈdʒentaɪl/
(also Gentile)
- a person who is not Jewish
非犹太人;外邦人(犹太人对非犹太人的通称) 词源late 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’.