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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin gentilis, from [[Latin]] gent-, gens [[nation]] (from which, together with forms of the cognate Greek word genos, also derive [[gene]], general, genus and [[genesis]]). The [[original]] [[meaning]] of "clan" or "[[family]]" was extended in post-Augustan Latin to acquire the wider meaning of belonging to a distinct nation or ethnicity. Later still the word came to refer to other nations, 'not a Roman citizen'. After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_seven_Ecumenical_Councils Christianization of the empire] it could also be used of [[pagan]] or [[barbarian]] [[cultures]].
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century]
==Definitions==
*1: often capitalized : a [[person]] of a non-[[Jewish]] nation or of non-Jewish [[faith]]; especially : a [[Christian]] as distinguished from a [[Jew]]
*2: heathen, [[pagan]]
*3: often capitalized : a non-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon Mormon]
==Description==
The term '''Gentile''' (from [[Latin]] gentilis, by the French "gentil", female: "gentille", [[meaning]] of or belonging to a [[clan]] or [[tribe]]) refers to non-Israelite peoples or nations in [[English]] [[translations]] of the [[Bible]].
[[Latin]] and subsequently [[English]] translators selectively used the term gentiles when the [[context]] for the base term 'peoples' or 'nations', [[Hebrew]], גוי (goy) and נכרי (nokhri) in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and the Greek word ἔθνη (éthnē) in the [[New Testament]], indicated non-Israelite peoples or nations. The term gentiles is derived from [[Latin]], used for contextual translation, and not an [[original]] [[Hebrew]] or [[Greek]] [[word]] from the [[Bible]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin gentilis, from [[Latin]] gent-, gens [[nation]] (from which, together with forms of the cognate Greek word genos, also derive [[gene]], general, genus and [[genesis]]). The [[original]] [[meaning]] of "clan" or "[[family]]" was extended in post-Augustan Latin to acquire the wider meaning of belonging to a distinct nation or ethnicity. Later still the word came to refer to other nations, 'not a Roman citizen'. After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_seven_Ecumenical_Councils Christianization of the empire] it could also be used of [[pagan]] or [[barbarian]] [[cultures]].
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century]
==Definitions==
*1: often capitalized : a [[person]] of a non-[[Jewish]] nation or of non-Jewish [[faith]]; especially : a [[Christian]] as distinguished from a [[Jew]]
*2: heathen, [[pagan]]
*3: often capitalized : a non-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon Mormon]
==Description==
The term '''Gentile''' (from [[Latin]] gentilis, by the French "gentil", female: "gentille", [[meaning]] of or belonging to a [[clan]] or [[tribe]]) refers to non-Israelite peoples or nations in [[English]] [[translations]] of the [[Bible]].
[[Latin]] and subsequently [[English]] translators selectively used the term gentiles when the [[context]] for the base term 'peoples' or 'nations', [[Hebrew]], גוי (goy) and נכרי (nokhri) in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and the Greek word ἔθνη (éthnē) in the [[New Testament]], indicated non-Israelite peoples or nations. The term gentiles is derived from [[Latin]], used for contextual translation, and not an [[original]] [[Hebrew]] or [[Greek]] [[word]] from the [[Bible]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
