gens

Meaning

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

Concepts

family

👪

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

nation

tribe

clan

race

breed

head man

class

scion

shoot

spear

sprout

cion

Synonyms

populus

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

familia

genus

natio

Translations

família

👪

Familie

👪

família

👪

famille

👪

famiglia

👪

familie

familia

👪

aile

👪

tribu

peuple

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

volk

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

familha

nazione

Volk

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɡẽːs]

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.