genuine

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin genuinus (“innate, native, natural”), from gignere, from Old Latin genere (“to beget, produce”); see genus; or genu (“knee”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: jěnʹyo͞oĭn', jĕnʹyo͞oīn' IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛnjuːˌɪn/, /ˈdʒɛnjuːˌaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnjuːɪn, -ɛnjuːaɪn

AdjectiveEdit

genuine (comparative more genuine, superlative most genuine)

1. 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

SynonymsEdit

• authentic
• real
• natural
• (British dialectal) lubish
• true
• uncounterfeited
• See also Wikisaurus:genuine

AntonymsEdit

• fake
• ingenuine

Related termsEdit

• genus

TranslationsEdit

real, authentic

• Bashkir: ысын (ïsïn)
• Bulgarian: истински (bg) (istinski), оригинален (bg) (originalen), автентичен (bg) (avtentičen)
• Catalan: genuí (ca)
• Central Kurdish: ڕه‌سه‌ن‏‎ (Rasan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真正 (zh) (zhēnzhèng), 真誠 (zh), 真诚 (zh) (zhēnchéng)

• Czech: pravý (cs)
• Danish: ægte (da), original
• Dutch: echt (nl), authentiek (nl), origineel (nl)
• Finnish: aito (fi), todellinen (fi)
• French: authentique (fr)
• Galician: xenuino m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: echt (de), original (de), genuin (de)
• Greek: γνήσιος (el) m (gnísios)
• Hebrew: מקורי‏‎ (he) (mekori), אמתי‏‎ (amiti)
• Hungarian: eredeti (hu), valódi (hu)
• Ido: autentika (io)
• Indonesian: tulen (id)

• Italian: genuino (it)
• Japanese: 本物の (ja) (ほんものの, honmono-no)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: īsts, īstens
• Maori: motuhenga, houtupu, tinihangakore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekte (no), genuin

  Nynorsk: ekte, genuin

• Occitan: autentic, genuin, vertadièr (oc)
• Polish: prawdziwy (pl), autentyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: genuíno (pt) m, autêntico (pt) m, legítimo (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: по́длинный (ru) (pódlinnyj), настоя́щий (ru) (nastojáščij), и́стинный (ru) (ístinnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: math dha-rìribh
• Slovak: pravý
• Spanish: genuino (es), auténtico (es), legítimo (es), verdadero (es)
• Swedish: genuin (sv), äkta (sv)
• Turkish: orijinal (tr), gerçek (tr), hakiki (tr)
• Volapük: legik (vo)

Further readingEdit

• genuine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• genuine in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• Guienne, eugenin, ingenue, ingénue, unigene

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡenuˈiːnə/
• Hyphenation: ge‧nu‧i‧ne

AdjectiveEdit

genuine

1. inflected form of genuin

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

genuine

1. feminine plural of genuino

AnagramsEdit

• ingenue

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LatinEdit

AdjectiveEdit

genuīne

1. vocative masculine singular of genuīnus

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

AdjectiveEdit

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural form of genuin

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

AdjectiveEdit

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural form of genuin

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SwedishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

genuine

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of genuin.