gente
Portuguese
/ˈʒẽ.tɨ/, /ˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/, /ˈʒẽ.te/, /ˈʒẽ.ti/
noun
Definitions
- people
- (historical) gens in Ancient Rome, a group of people descending from a common ancestor
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese gente inherited from Latin gentem inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (production, birth).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵénh₁tis
Gloss
production, birth
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
生
Emoji
🤰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gens Latin
- gentem Latin
- gentem, gens, gēns Latin
- gēns Latin
- gente Spanish, Castilian
- gentecilla Spanish, Castilian
- gentío Spanish, Castilian
- quien Spanish, Castilian
- γένεσις Ancient Greek
- *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Indo-European
- gentalha Portuguese
- quem Portuguese
- gent Old French
- gent Catalan, Valencian
- xente Galician
- gintă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- gento Ido
- gjinde Albanian
- gente Old Portuguese
- *gneses Proto-Celtic
- *ȷ́áHtiš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- ghimtã Aromanian
- gintã Aromanian
- gentis Lithuanian
- yente Old Spanish
- hende Papiamentu
- *dzenti Proto-Albanian
- gente Kabuverdianu
- gentis Kabuverdianu
- ken Kabuverdianu
- *génetis Proto-Hellenic
- giente Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- djinti Guinea-Bissau Creole