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Senso

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(Inglese)

(declension-3) Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites)
(declension-3) stock, tribe
(declension-3) nation, country
(declension-3) people, family
(declension-3) the chief gods
(Judaism, declension-3) heathen, pagan

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[ˈɡẽːs]

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.