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gentes

gentes is a Latin form of gens, meaning “clan, family line; tribe, people, nation; (pl.) foreign peoples”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 455 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.17.2: De his eandem fere, quam reliquae gentes, habent opinionem: Apollinem morbos depellere, Minervam operum atque artificiorum initia tradere, Iovem imperium caelestium tenere, Martem bella regere.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.331: invida iura negant. Gentes tamen esse feruntur,

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.8.5.2: Cuius fácta viva núnc vigent, qui apud géntes solus praéstat,

All forms of gens (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.