A variant form of german, adapted in this sense in allusions to its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

• germain, germaine (obsolete)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒɜː(ɹ)ˈmeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɝˈmeɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

germane (comparative more germane, superlative most germane)

1. Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.

   Synonyms: pertinent, relevant, apt, on-topic; see also Thesaurus:pertinent

   • 1924, W. D. Ross., translator, Aristotle, Metaphysics. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, Book 1, Part 5.

     Yet this much is germane to the present inquiry:

   • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “Tennis Player Michael Joyce’s Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

     Connors was addicted to this racquet and kept using it even after Wilson stopped making it, forfeiting millions in potential endorsement money by doing so. Connors was eccentric (and kind of repulsive) in lots of other ways, too, none of which are germane to this article.

   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. [...] Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.

From germ(anium) +‎ -ane.^[1]

germane (countable and uncountable, plural germanes)

1. (inorganic chemistry) germanium tetrahydride, GeH₄
2. (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any organic derivative of this compound.

• germanium tetrahydride
• germanomethane
• monogermane

• Gameren

• IPA^(key): /ɡerˈmane/

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• Rhymes: -ane
• Syllabification: ger‧ma‧ne

germane

1. in the German language
2. Germanly; in the manner of a German

germane f pl

1. feminine plural of germano

From germānus (“real, sincere”) + -ē (adverb formant).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛrˈmaː.neː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒerˈmaː.ne]

germānē (comparative germānius, superlative germānissimē)

1. sincerely

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛrˈmaː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒerˈmaː.ne]

germāne

1. masculine vocative singular of germānus

germāne m

1. vocative singular of germānus

• “germane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “germane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “germane”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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