gentile

 
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛntʌɪl/

adjective

  • 1 (Gentile) not Jewish: a predominantly Gentile audience
  • (of a person) not belonging to one’s own religious community.
  • historical non-Mormon.
  • 2chiefly Anthropology relating to or indicating a nation or clan, especially a gens.

noun

  • (Gentile) a person who is not Jewish.

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin gentilis 'of a family or nation, of the same clan' (used in the Vulgate to refer to non-Jews), from gens, gent- 'family, race', from the root of gignere 'beget'