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 "
1 The gens , we must remember, was the unit of their social organization.
2 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.
4 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 ?
1 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 .
4 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 .
1 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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Translations for roman gente