Gens vs Gentes - What's the difference?
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(historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term related.
(anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
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As nouns the difference between gens and gentes
is that gens is a legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term {{term|related|lang=en}} while gentes is plural of lang=en.As an abbreviation gens
is generations.gens
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Etymology 1
Shortened from generations.Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)See also
* genEtymology 2
(wikipedia gens) From (etyl) ; see also gentile, gender, genus, generate.Noun
(en-noun)- The taboos, the laws, the rules of genses , tribes, and nations, from the lowest to the highest, are upheld by a vague terror and sacred awe which society impresses on man by threats of ill-luck, fearful evil, and terrible punishments befalling sinners and transgressors of the tabooed, of the holy and the forbidden, charged with a mysterious, highly contagious, and virulently infective life-consuming energy.