Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 759.gēns on page 759
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gēns race
gēns is a Latin Noun that primarily means race.
Definitions for gēns
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
clan, race, nation, people
English derivatives:
gentile gentle genteel gentry
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A race, nation, people. (b) (w. omnes). (c) (pl., poet.) crowds, hordes.
- 2
(pl.) The peoples or nations of the world, the whole world; also, the rest of the world apart from the Romans or Italians. (b) the human race, mankind. (c) ius gentium, the universally recognized code of behaviour between nations or individuals; also the law available to aliens as well as citizens; see IVS2.
- 3
(referring to the geographical region occupied by a nation or people) Country.
Sentences with gēns
Latin to English
Ast ego quae divum incēdō rēgīna Iouisque et soror et conjunx ūnā cum gente tot annōs bella gerō.Compare Yet I, who walk about as queen of the gods, wife and sister of Jove, wage war on a whole race, for so many years.
Tōta gēns in fīnēs huius reī pūblicae magnā cum manū amīcōrum ūnō diē vēnit.Compare The whole clan came into the territory of this state with a large band of friends in one day.
Audax omnia perpeti gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.Compare In its boldness to bear and to dare all things, the race of man rushes headlong into sin, despite of law.
Firmissimum hoc adferri videtur, cur does esse credamus, quod nulla gens tam fera, nemo omnium tam est immanis, cuius mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio.Compare This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of god, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the would so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
De hic deus idem fere, qui reliquus gens, habeo opinio.Compare Concerning these gods they have almost the same opinion as other nations.
Resistens enim Cn. Pompeius, victor omnis gens, nunquam sui ille res publica deleo possum duco.Compare For as long as Cn. Pompey, the conqueror of every nation, was resisting, they thought that they could never destroy the republic.
Declension table for gēns
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | gēns | gentēs |
| Gen. | gentis | gentium / -um |
| Dat. | gentī | gentibus |
| Acc. | gentem | gentēs / -īs |
| Abl. | gente | gentibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 137.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 759.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "gēns, gentis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 27, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/gens-gentis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 137.gēns, gentis on page 137
