gentes in English

noun
1
a group of families in ancient Rome who shared a name and claimed a common origin.
As Tiberius was immediately adopted by Augustus, Germanicus became a member of the Julian gens in the direct line of succession; and his career was accelerated by special dispensations.
2
a group of people who are related through their male ancestors.
Roman law gave a priority to the ius civile, the laws of the city of Rome itself, but there was also the ius gentium, recognitions of the indigenous laws of the gens , the tribes, the other peoples and cultures in the empire.
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1. Barrancos o "meio" e suas gentes

2. Monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, and Acotyledonous plants, and these he subdivided into gentes or nations

3. Quamvis Bibant mente leta, sic nos rodunt omnes gentes, et sic erimus egentes

4. Monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, and Acotyledonous plants, and these he subdivided into gentes or nations

5. Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 35: AAS 58 (1966), p. 983.

6. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 7: AAS 58 (1966), p. 955.

7. Curial is an adjective meaning related to curia-one of the ten primitive subdivisions of a tribe in early Rome, consisting of ten gentes

8. Quamvis Bibant mente leta, However much they cheerfully drink: sic nos rodunt omnes gentes: we are the ones whom everyone scolds, et sic erimus egentes

9. And for having put an end to the feral wandering of these few giants, so that they became the princes of the gentes, he received the epithet Stator, stayer or establisher.

10. In the final canto of Purgatorio, the women singing Psalm 79 do so alternando / or tre or quattro dolce salmodia, / le donne incominciaro, e lagrimando [Weeping, the women then begannow three, / now four, Alternatelyto psalm gently, / Deus venerunt gentes

11. Darstellung Chiraler heterocyclischer β-Aminosäureester / Preparation of Chiral Heterocyclic Esters of β-Amino Acids Hans Günter Aurich 1 , Christian Gentes 1 and Ulrich Sievers 1 1 Fachbereich Chemie der Philipps-Universität Marburg, D-35032 Marburg