Meaning of Gints | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a male given name
   masculine
2. family, kin group, clan (a primitive unit of social organization, based on blood relations and lineage from a common ancestor)
   declension-6, feminine
3. people (group of people with common interests, ideas, goals, viewpoints)
   declension-6, feminine, poetic
4. genus (a group of species)
   declension-6, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“patriarhālā ģints”

patriarchal family

“ģints iekārta”

family order, organization, system

“ģints sabiedrība”

familiar society (i.e., composed of families)

“mātes ģints”

maternal, matriarchal family (where descent goes through the mother's line)

“tēvas ģints”

paternal, patriarchal family (where descent goes through the father's line)

“bet stāv pats nams! viņš dibināts uz klints, / un viņu sargā jaunā darba ģints”

but the house itself stands! it is founded upon a rock, / and it is protected by the young working people

“atceries, atceries varoņu ģinti, / ugunīs gāja tie vārtus tev vērt”

remember, remember the hero people, / they walked on fire to open the gates for you

“dzimtas iedala ģintīs... zaķu dzimtā ir divas ģintis: trušu ģints un zaķu ġints”

families are divided into genera... in the hare family (Leporidae) there are two genera: the rabbit genus (Oryctolagus) and the hare genus (Lepus)

“zemeņu ģintī izšķiram dārza zemeņu, meža zemeņu un spradzeņu sugas”

in the strawberry genus we distinguish the garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) and the spradzene (Fragaria viridis) species

CEFR level