Gentes

Word GENTES
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈdʒɛn.teɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Gentes"

What do we mean by gentes?

Plural of gens. noun

Plural form of gens. noun

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.

A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.

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The word "gentes" in example sentences

As the gentes were subdivisions of the three ancient tribes, the _populus_ alone had _gentes_, so that to be a patrician and to have a gens were synonymous. ❋ John Lord (1852)

A particularly fine example of the use Ovid makes of differing levels of diction is found at 35-38: excitat auditor studium, laudataque uirtus crescit, et immensum gloria calcar habet. hic mea cui recitem nisi flauis scripta Corallis, quasque alias gentes barbarus Hister obit? ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

Ac volentes super his congruis remediis providere, prasdictos Indos et omnes alias gentes ad notitiam Christianorum imposterum deventuras, licet extra Fidem Christi existant sua libertate àc rerum suarum dominio privatos, seù privandos non esse. ❋ Francis Augustus MacNutt (N/A)

Professor R.J. Tarrant points out, the only meaning that can be attached to _quasque alias gentes barbarus Hister habet_ is 'the other people that live in the Danube'; he compares _Her_ VI 135-36 'prodidit illa patrem; rapui de clade Thoanta./deseruit Colchos; me mea Lemnos habet' and _Aen_ VI 362 (Palinurus speaking) 'nunc me fluctus habet'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

It is a common practice of the Senecas to call the gentes of their own phratry brother gentes and those of the other phratry their cousin gentes, when they mention them in their relation to the phratries. ❋ Lewis H. Morgan (1849)

'hic mea cui recitem nisi flauis scripta Corallis,/quasque alias gentes barbarus Hister obit?'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

Son buenas gentes if it's two or more people. 5. f. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's odd because I've never come across 'son buenas gentes' before - and it never occurred to me that the plural existed in this form! ❋ Unknown (2009)

To speak from personal experience, it's much more common to hear the average Mexican, with a 6th grade education or less, say son buenas gentes when talking about a group of people he just met, (most) all of whom he thinks are nice people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now that doesn't say you won't possibly hear Son buenas gentes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The tone was pretty, and he added some striking ornaments and expressive nuances while maintaining admirable clarity and agility in the rapid passages, as in Kaspar Förster's gorgeous "Laudate dominum omnes gentes." ❋ Charles T. Downey (2010)

Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus; et super coelos gloria ejus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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