genou, n.m., knee; (nav.) lower futtock; (mec.) bail and socket. pl., lap. Être à —x; to be on one’s knees. Se mettre à —x; to kneel. Tenir un enfant sur ses —x; to hold a child on one’s lap. Fléchir le —; to bend the knee. Tomber aux —x de quelqu’un; to fall at any one’s feet. — de la rame; arm of an oar.
*genouillère, n.f., knee-piece (of armor); top (of a boot); knee-cap; pulley-piece.
génovéfain, n.m., canon of St. Geneviève.
genre, n.m., genus; species; kind, sort; fashion, taste; style, manner; course, line; airs, affectation, mannerism, attitudinizing; gender; (paint.) genre. Le — humain; mankind. Un — de vie; a course of life. Il a un — qui lui est propre; he has a style peculiar to himself. Le — tragique; tragedy. Le — comique; comedy. De bon —; gentlemanly, ladylike. De mauvais —; ungentlemanly, unladylike.
gens (jān), n.m., people, persons, folk, men, hands; domestics, servants, attendants. Ce sont des — fort dangereux, de fort dangereuses —; they are very dangerous people. Des — fins, de fines —; cunning folk. Tous les — de bien; all honest people. Tous les habiles —; all clever people. Toutes les vieilles —; all old people. Les petites —; humble people. — de lettres; men of letters. — de guerre; soldiers. — d’église; churchmen. — d’affaires; men of business. Le droit des —; the law of nations. Il y a — et —; there are people of all sorts. Les vieilles — sont prudents; old people are prudent. À — de village trompette de bois; rough tools for rough work. [Gens requires all adjectives that follow it to be in the masculine, and all those that precede it to be in the feminine. The masculine, however, is used before gens, when the word tous alone precedes it, or when tous is accompanied by an adjective having the same termination for both genders. When gens more particularly refers to men, as in the expressions, gens de lettres, gens de loi, etc., the adjectives that precede gens are also put in the masculine.]
gent, n.f., (jest.) nation, people, race, tribe. La — marécageuse; the marshy tribe.
gentiane, n.f., (bot.) gentian.
gentianelle, n.f., (bot.) gentianella.
gentil (-ti), n. and adj. m., Gentile.
gentil, -le, adj., pretty, nice, amiable; graceful, pleasing; (iron.) ridiculous, pretty, fine. Un — métier! a fine occupation, indeed! Un — enfant; a pretty, amiable child.