A type of clan division that existed in ancient Rome, signified by a persons nomen.
Sinônimos
Examples for "gens"
Examples for "gens"
1The gens, we must remember, was the unit of their social organization.
2He remained a member of the gens into which he was born.
3One Athenian gens, the Ioxidae, had for its ancestral plant the asparagus.
4A German count cannot condescend to learn anything about ces petites gens.
5You are not recognising an acquaintance amongst that group of jeunes gens?
1These were worked by the gentes for the benefit of the Mexicans.
2It had three original gentes, the Wolf, the Turtle, and the Turkey.
3The confederacy rested upon the tribes ostensibly, but primarily upon common gentes.
4He shows that the Aztecs were composed of twenty gentes or clans.
5The Eskimo have a regular system of animal totem marks and corresponding gentes.
1The Grecian gens, phratry, and tribe, the Roman gens, curia, and tribe find their analogues in the gens, phratry, and tribe of the American aborigines.
2The 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.
Translations for roman gente