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gentibus

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

Found 284 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.54.5: Idque adeo haud scio mirandumne sit, cum compluribus aliis de causis, tum maxime quod ei, qui virtute belli omnibus gentibus praeferebantur, tantum se eius opinionis deperdidisse ut a populo Romano imperia perferrent gravissime dolebant.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.668: Gentibus innumeris circumque infraque relictis

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.