â¢ MAGNETIC COMPASS (noun) The noun MAGNETIC COMPASS has 1 sense: 1. compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north. Familiarity information: MAGNETIC COMPASS used as a noun is very rare.
[ 2 syll. gen-tian, ge-nti-an ] The baby boy name Gentian is pronounced as JH EH NSHAHN â . Gentian is used predominantly in the Albanian language and it is derived from Latin origins. It is derived from the element 'gentiana' meaning gentian. The name Gentiana (Albanian) is the female version of Gentian.
Hypocorisms of first names are commonly based on truncation, only keeping the first (Max) or last (Hans) syllable(s), sometimes in contracted form as these examples show. Often the ending-i is added to these truncated nameforms.The name might also undergo a sound shift (Sepp).speranto forms nicknames by suffixing-njo (for females) and -Äjo (for males) to the first letter(s) of the basic name or word. (This is the only situation in Esperanto in which a word root is shortened or otherwise changed in word-building.).