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Meanings of ancient roman clan in English
A type of clan division that existed in ancient Rome, signified by a persons nomen.
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Examples for "gens"
Examples for "gens"
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The gens, we must remember, was the unit of their social organization.
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He remained a member of the gens into which he was born.
3
One Athenian gens, the Ioxidae, had for its ancestral plant the asparagus.
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A German count cannot condescend to learn anything about ces petites gens.
5
You are not recognising an acquaintance amongst that group of jeunes gens?
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These were worked by the gentes for the benefit of the Mexicans.
2
It had three original gentes, the Wolf, the Turtle, and the Turkey.
3
The confederacy rested upon the tribes ostensibly, but primarily upon common gentes.
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He shows that the Aztecs were composed of twenty gentes or clans.
5
The Eskimo have a regular system of animal totem marks and corresponding gentes.
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The Grecian gens, phratry, and tribe, the Roman gens, curia, and tribe find their analogues in the gens, phratry, and tribe of the American aborigines.
2
The o-uji corresponded in some degree to the Greek (Greek genos) or the Roman gens: the ko-uji were its branches, and subordinate to it.
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