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gens egns gnes nges engs negs gesn egsn gsen sgen esgn segn gnse ngse gsne sgne nsge snge ensg nesg esng seng nseg sneg

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Definitions and meaning of gens

gens

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gēns (“gens; people, tribe”), from Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”) + *-tis (“suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots”). Doublet of kind, genesis, and jati. See also gender, generate, gentile, genus; also Latin gigno (“I bring forth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛnz/, /ɡɛns/
• Rhymes: -ɛnz

Noun

gens (plural gentes or genses)

2. (Ancient Rome, historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
3. (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
4. (zoology) A host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species.^[W]

Usage notes

Regarding sense 1 (“historical Roman unit of society”), the concept is close to and often translated as clan, but the two are not identical. The alternative tribe is also sometimes used, but the Latin tribus has a separate meaning.

Synonyms

• (Roman unit of society): clan, tribe (but see the usage note)

Derived terms

• gentile (“of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes”)

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of generations.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛnz/

Noun

gens

1. plural of gen (clipping of generation).

References

Further reading

• gens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Seng, engs, negs

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin genus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒens]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈd͡ʒens]

Adverb

gens

1. a bit, few
2. (in negative phrases) at all

   No m'agrada gens. ― I don't like it at all.

3. any

   Et queda gens de sal? ― Do you have any salt left?

   No queda gens de sal. ― There isn't any salt left.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒɛns]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈd͡ʒens]

Noun

gens

1. plural of gen (“gene”)

Further reading

• “gens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡens/, [ˈɡe̞ns̠]
• Rhymes: -ens
• Syllabification^(key): gens

Noun

gens

1. (historical) gens (a unit in Ancient Roman society)

Declension

French

Etymology

From an earlier gents, from the plural of Old French gent, genz, from gentem, accusative of gēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ʒã/
• (Haiti) IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃s/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃(s)/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃
• Homophones: gent, gents, jan, jans, Jean

Noun

gens m pl (plural only)

1. set of people

Usage notes

• When gens is preceded by an attributive adjective which has a different feminine form, this adjective, along with any preceding determiner, is made feminine. However, adjectives after the noun remain masculine.

Toutes les bonnes gens heureux

Tous ces honnêtes gens

Derived terms

Related terms

• gent

See also

• peuple m

Further reading

• “gens”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Icelandic

Noun

gens

1. indefinite genitive singular of gen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis, from root *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”).

See also generō, genus, gignō. Cognate with English kind, Sanskrit जाति (jāti), Ancient Greek γένος (génos) and Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis), whence English genesis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡens/, [ɡẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒens/, [d͡ʒɛns]

Noun

gēns f (genitive gentis); third declension

1. Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites)
2. stock, tribe
3. nation, country
4. people, family

   Synonyms: tribus, prōlēs, prōgeniēs

5. the chief gods
6. (biblical, Christianity, Judaism) heathen, pagan

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “gens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “gens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gens in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “gens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norman

Etymology

From Old French gens, gent, from Latin gēns, gentis.

Noun

gens m pl

1. (Guernsey, plural only) people

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gēns. Doublet of gente.

Noun

gens f (invariable)

1. (Ancient Rome) gens (in Ancient Rome, a group of people descending from a common ancestor)

   Synonym: gente

Spanish

Noun

gens f (plural genss)

1. (Ancient Rome) gens

Swedish

Noun

gens

1. indefinite genitive singular of gen

Source: wiktionary.org