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Meanings of gens in English

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генс
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etnia
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gens

A type of clan division that existed in ancient Rome, signified by a persons nomen.

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        генс
        Portuguese
        gens
        Catalan
        gens (família)
        Spanish
        gens

        Family based on male descent.

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              Examples for "name"
              Examples for "name"
              1
              The menu read 'Hillsborough Castle'-thename 'Government House' had long since gone.
              Outposts: journeys to the surviving relics of the british empire
              2
              The name represents young children of today, becoming leaders of the future.
              The South African
              3
              Two years and one name change later, his idea is a reality.
              The Irish Times
              4
              However, it has a new name that is far less exclusive: Civilisations.
              The Guardian
              5
              No good could come following the gul's use of his given name.
              Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
              Usage of gens in English
              1
              The gens, we must remember, was the unit of their social organization.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              2
              He remained a member of the gens into which he was born.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              3
              One Athenian gens, the Ioxidae, had for its ancestral plant the asparagus.
              Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
              4
              A German count cannot condescend to learn anything about ces petites gens.
              The Parisians — Complete
              5
              You are not recognising an acquaintance amongst that group of jeunes gens?
              Villette
              6
              A 'piquet' of 'gens d'armes', he said, was all that was necessary.
              Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 13
              7
              The council of the gens is the supreme ruling power in the gens.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              8
              The gens is an organized body of consanguineal kindred in the female line.
              Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society / Bureau of ...
              9
              The Nomen was put after the Praenomen, and marked the gens.
              The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius
              10
              We will begin with the gens, or the lowest division of the tribe.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              11
              The community being a continuation of the gens, it inherited all its functions.
              Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
              12
              This division would be made by the council of the gens.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              13
              Each of these gens held and possessed a portion of the original soil.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              14
              To a stranger the tribe is visible, and not the gens.
              Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
              15
              There is no such thing as privileged classes in a gens.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              16
              Children, irrespective of sex, belong to the gens of the mother.
              Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society / Bureau of ...
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