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Etymology
From Latin genuinus (“innate, native, natural”), from gignere, from Old Latin genere (“to beget, produce”); see genus; or genu (“knee”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: jěnʹyo͞oĭn', jĕnʹyo͞oīn' IPA: /ˈdʒɛnjuːˌɪn/, /ˈdʒɛnjuːˌaɪn/
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- Rhymes: -ɛnjuːɪn, -ɛnjuːaɪn
Adjective
genuine (comparative more genuine, superlative most genuine)
- Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure.
- a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials
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Translations
real, authentic
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Central Kurdish: ڕهسهن (Rasan)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 真正 (cmn) (zhēnzhèng), 真誠 (cmn), 真诚 (cmn) (zhēnchéng)
- Czech: pravý (cs)
- Danish: ægte (da), original (da)
- Dutch: echt (nl), authentiek (nl), origineel (nl)
- Finnish: aito (fi), todellinen (fi)
- French: authentique (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: echt (de), original (de), genuin (de)
- Hebrew: מקורי (he) (mekori), אמתי (he) (amiti)
- Hungarian: eredeti (hu), valódi (hu)
- Ido: autentika (io)
- Indonesian: tulen (id)
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- Italian: genuino (it)
- Japanese: 本物の (ja) (ほんものの, honmono-no)
- Latvian: īsts (lv), īstens (lv)
- Maori: motuhenga (mi)
- Norwegian: ekte (no), genuin (no)
- Polish: prawdziwy (pl), autentyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: genuíno (pt) m, autêntico (pt) m, legítimo (pt) m
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: подлинный (ru) (pódlinnyj) , настоящий (ru) (nastojáščij) , истинный (ru) (ístinnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: math dha-rìribh (gd)
- Slovak: pravý (sk)
- Spanish: genuino (es), auténtico (es), legítimo (es), verdadero (es)
- Swedish: genuin (sv), äkta (sv)
- Turkish: orijinal (tr), gerçek (tr)
- Volapük: legik (vo)
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