gentes
- plural of gens.
Example Sentences
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Closer investigation shows that these phratries generally represent the original gentes that formed the tribe in the beginning.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
From here derived the original families whose chiefs became the Roman patricians and formed the nucleus of the Roman Senate—the so-called gentes.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
The descendants of the sons are transferred to the gentes of the new mothers.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
