Genoese

From Genoa +‎ -ese.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/

Genoese (plural Genoese)

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy.
   • 1656, T. B. of the Inner-Temple, Glossographia: or a Dictionary, Interpreting all such Hard Words, [...], London, s.v. America ([1]):

     America. One of the four parts of the world, ſo called from Americus Veſpuſius a Florentine, who with Columbus a Genoeſe, firſt diſcover'd this Country about the yeer 1492 which is moſt aptly called the New world; [...].

   • 1708, The General History of the World, being an Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh. With a Continuation from the Best Historians to the Present Times. Vol. III, London, p. 249 ([2]):

     However, John not liking a Partner in the Empire, left Conſtantinople, and retir'd to Tenedos, where he engag'd Francis Cataluze a Genoeſe to aſſiſt him, and with the Fleet under his Command, return'd to the Imperal City, compell'd Contacuzenus to quit the Empire; [...]

   • 1741, The Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; – Volume the Second. – The Third Edition: With a Compleat Index, London, p. 6 ([3]):

     For at preſent the Greateſt, among the Genoeſe, are in part ſubjects to the monarchy of Spain [...]. The Spaniards tax them very high upon occaſion, and are ſo ſenſible of the advantage this gives them over the republick, that they will not ſuffer a Neapolitan to buy the lands of a Genoeſe, who muſt find a purchaſer among his own countrymen, if he has a mind to ſell.

Genoese

1. The inhabitants of Genoa, collectively.
2. The dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa

Genoese (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy.

• Genovese

• “Genoese”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Genoese, Genovese, Genoan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.