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gens
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin g?ns (“gens; people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth; production”), from *?enh?- (“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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /d???nz/, /??ns/
- Rhymes: -?nz
Noun
gens (plural gentes or genses)
- (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.
- (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
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): /d???nz/
Noun
gens
- plural of gen (clipping of generation).
References
Further reading
- gens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Seng, engs, negs
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin genus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /??ens/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?d??ens/
Adverb
gens
- a bit, few
- (in negative phrases) at all
- any
Further reading
- “gens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish
Noun
gens
- gens (unit in Ancient Roman society)
Declension
French
Etymology
From an earlier gents, from the plural of Old French gent, genz, from gentem, accusative of g?ns, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?ã/
- (Haiti) IPA(key): /???s/
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophones: gent, gents, jan, jans, Jean
Noun
gens m pl (plural only)
- set of people
- Ces gens-là ont toujours été sympas avec moi.
- Those people have always been kind to me.
- Je n’aime pas les gens qui se prennent pour le nombril du monde.
- I don't like people who think the world revolves around them. (Literal meaning: I don't like people who put themselves in the middle of the world.)
- Ces gens-là ont toujours été sympas avec moi.
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
- Toutes ces honnêtes gens
Derived terms
Related terms
- gent
See also
- peuple m
Further reading
- “gens” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Icelandic
Noun
gens
- indefinite genitive singular of gen
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis, from root *?enh?- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”). See also gign?, gener?, genus. Cognate with English kind, Sanskrit ???? (j?ti), Ancient Greek ????? (génos) and Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis), whence English genesis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ens/, [???s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d??ens/, [d???ns]
Noun
g?ns f (genitive gentis); third declension
- Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites)
- tribe; people, family
- the chief gods
- (biblical, Christianity, Judaism) gentile, Gentile
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
- genticus
- gentil?cius
- gent?lis
- gent?lit?s
- ing?ns
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, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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 g?ns, gentis.
Noun
gens m pl
- (Guernsey, plural only) people
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gens. Doublet of gente.
Noun
gens f (plural gens)
- (Ancient Rome) gens (in Ancient Rome, a group of people descending from a common ancestor)
- Synonym: gente
Swedish
Noun
gens
- indefinite genitive singular of gen
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gons
English
Noun
gons
- plural of gon
Anagrams
- NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, Song, nogs, snog, song
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ns
Verb
gons
- first-person singular present indicative of gonzen
- imperative of gonzen
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