gens

The children, following the gentes of their respective mothers, would be divided between them.

for since marriage was prohibited within the gens, there had to be at least two gentes in any tribe to enable it to exist independently.

curia: One of the ten primitive subdivisions of a tribe in early Rome, consisting of ten gentes.

It will be a revival, in a higher form, of the liberty, equality and fraternity of the ancient gentes.

That the Germans were organized in gentes until the time of the migrations is beyond all doubt.

The gentes of the Iroquois will be taken as the standard exemplification of this institution in the Ganowanian family .

But each of these groups was composed of people of the most diverse gentes , phratries, and tribes, and even included aliens.

The Ugnaughts originally hail from Gentes, in the Anoat system, from where they were sold into slavery long ago.

To consolidate community life, the group should strengthen its activities of evangelization ad gentes.

With respect to the number of gentes in a tribe, the more numerous the people the greater, usually, the number of gentes .

The diocesan mass media organizations and bureaus should give first priority to evangelization ad gentes.

They were elected by the respective gentes whenever a vacancy occurred and could be deposed by the gentes at any time;