genuine

English

Etymology

PIE word
*ǵónu

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^(key): /ˈdʒɛnjuːˌɪn/, /ˈdʒɛnjuːˌaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnjuːɪn, -ɛnjuːaɪn

Adjective

genuine (comparative more genuine, superlative most genuine)

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native
2. Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated

   a genuine text;  a genuine production;  genuine materials; genuine friendship

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• fake
• ingenuine

Related terms

• genus

Translations

real, authentic

• Bashkir: ысын (ïsïn)
• Belarusian: сапра́ўдны (sapráŭdny)
• Bulgarian: и́стински (bg) (ístinski), оригина́лен (bg) (originálen), автенти́чен (bg) (avtentíčen)
• 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: ნამდვილი (namdvili), ჭეშმარიტი (č̣ešmariṭi)
• German: echt (de), original (de), genuin (de)
• Greek: γνήσιος (el) m (gnísios)

  Ancient: γνήσιος (gnḗsios), ἀληθινός (alēthinós)

• 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)
• Korean: 성실하다 (ko) (seongsilhada), 진짜의 (ko) (jinjjaui)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: vērus (la)
• Latvian: īsts, īstens
• Macedonian: вистински (vistinski)
• Maori: motuhenga, houtupu, tinihangakore, horopū
• 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), аутенти́чный (ru) (autɛntíčnyj), оригина́льный (ru) (originálʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: math dha-rìribh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прави

  Roman: pravi (sh)

• Slovak: pravý
• Spanish: genuino (es), auténtico (es), legítimo (es), verdadero (es)
• Swedish: genuin (sv), äkta (sv)
• Thai: จริง (th) (jing), แท้ (th) (tɛ́ɛ)
• Turkish: orijinal (tr), gerçek (tr), hakiki (tr)
• Ukrainian: спра́вжній (správžnij)
• Volapük: legik (vo)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Guienne, eugenin, ingenue, ingénue, unigene

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German

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

genuine

1. inflection of genuin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Adjective

genuine

1. Feminine plural of adjective genuino.

Anagrams

• ingenue

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Latin

Adjective

genuīne

1. vocative masculine singular of genuīnus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural of genuin

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural of genuin

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Swedish

Adjective

genuine

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of genuin.