Gens

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

II. Gens ·adj A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

Related Words

gens
gens, gentis, f. [root GEN, gigno, that which belongs together by birth or descent], a race or clan,...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
gens
gēns gentis, f GEN-, a race, clan, house (of families having a name and certain religious rites in...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Gens d'armes
·pl of <<Gendarme>>. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language