gens

Definitiones

1. Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites)
   declension-3
2. stock, tribe
   declension-3
3. nation, country
   declension-3
4. people, family
   declension-3
5. the chief gods
   declension-3
6. heathen, pagan
   Judaism, declension-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Sī petat ā victīs, tot sūmat nōmina Caesar,”

Were Caesar to seek his names from the conquered, he would have to assume as many in number as the vast world has nations.

Gradus CEFR