genuine

See also: génuine

English

Etymology

From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jěnʹyo͞oĭn', jĕnʹyo͞oīn' IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnjuːˌɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnjuːˌaɪn/

• Audio (US):

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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
• (British dialectal) lubish
• legit
• natural
• real
• true
• uncounterfeited

 

• See also Thesaurus:genuine

Antonyms

• fake
• ingenuine

 

Derived terms

• genuine article
• genuine fake
• genuine issue of material fact

 

Related terms

• genus

Translations

from the original stock; native

real, authentic

• Arabic: أَصْلِيّ (ʔaṣliyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: أصلي (ʔaṣli)

• Bashkir: ысын (ısın)
• Belarusian: сапра́ўдны (be) (sapráŭdny)
• Bulgarian: и́стински (bg) (ístinski), оригина́лен (bg) (originálen), автенти́чен (bg) (avtentíčen)
• Catalan: genuí (ca)
• Central Kurdish: ڕەسەن (ckb) (resen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真正 (zh) (zhēnzhèng), 真誠／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), უტყუარი (uṭq̇uari), წრფელი (c̣rpeli), გულწრფელი (gulc̣rpeli)
• German: echt (de), original (de), genuin (de)
• Greek: γνήσιος (el) m (gnísios)

  Ancient: γνήσιος (gnḗsios), ἀληθινός (alēthinós), ἐτεός (eteós)

• 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 (oc), genuin, vertadièr (oc)
• Polish: prawdziwy (pl), autentyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: genuíno (pt) m, autêntico (pt) m, legítimo (pt) m
• Romanian: autentic (ro), adevărat (ro)
• Russian: по́длинный (ru) (pódlinnyj), настоя́щий (ru) (nastojáščij), и́стинный (ru) (ístinnyj), аутенти́чный (ru) (autɛntíčnyj), оригина́льный (ru) (originálʹnyj)
• Sanskrit: जेन्य (sa) (jenya)
• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “genuine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Guienne, eugenin, ingenue, ingénue, unigene

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡenuˈiːnə/

• Audio:

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• 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

Italian

Adjective

genuine

1. feminine plural of genuino

Anagrams

• ingenue, unigene

Latin

Adjective

genuīne

1. vocative masculine singular of genuīnus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural of genuin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural of genuin

Swedish

Adjective

genuine

1. definite natural masculine singular of genuin