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Latin, meaning: clan, race, nation, people, tribe.
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In ancient Rome, a gens (s or z), plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps (plural stirpes). The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the period of the Roman Republic. Mu...
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[anthropology] Gens was used by Lewis H. Morgan (in Ancient Society) and Friedrich Engels (in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State), among others, to refer to a group of people who were related through their female ancestor (which was the basis of mother right). Confusingly, it is also used to refer to groups of people w...
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[behaviour] In animal behaviour, a gens (pl. gentes) or host race is a host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species. Brood parasites such as cuckoos, which use multiple host species to raise their chicks, evolve different gentes, each one specific to its host species. This specialisation allows the parasites to lay eggs that mimic thos...
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• (a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe. • (a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.Gens: words in the def...
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In ancient Rome, a gens was a clan or house that included a number of families with the same name descending from a common ancestor. The families also shared certain legal privileges and...
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Origin: L. See Gentle. ... 1. A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe. ... 2. <ethnology> A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the sa...
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In Rome, the gens was a term used to refer to a clan, or group of families, that shared a common name (the nomen) and a belief in a common ancestor. In the tria nomina, the second name was the name of the gens to which the person belonged. The origins of the gentes are unclear, although they are probably not as ancient as the Romans themselves thou…...
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Gens (jĕnz)
noun ;
plural Gentes (jĕn'tēz). [ Latin See
Gentle ,
adjective ]
(Rom. Hist.) 1. A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common relig...
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In Roman history, a gens was a clan or stock embracing several families united together by a common name and certain religious rites; as, the Fabian gens, all having Pabius as part of their personal name; the Julian gens, all named Julius; the Cornelian gens, etc.
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In anthropology, a gens is a group based on descent in the male line.
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Latin, an influential group of families
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(Latin) a family group in Rome; members of the same gens shared common property, the right to inherit, a common burial place, religious rites, and the same name.
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clan, race, nation, people, tribe.
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