Noun
The word is derived from gens
of Gens
Source: Webster's dictionaryToday the Church must face other challenges and push forward to new frontiers, both in the initial mission ad gentes and in the new evangelization of those peoples who have already heard Christ proclaimed. Pope John Paul II
Additional efforts to connect Celer and Marcella with other gentes are highly speculative. Source: Internet
Because some gentes made regular use of only three or four praenomina, new names might appear whenever there were several younger sons. Source: Internet
On the other hand, ius intra gentes, or civil law, is specific to each nation. Source: Internet
Proto-history A possible early reference to a Baltic people occurs in 98 CE, when Tacitus names a tribe living near the Baltic Sea (Mare Svebicum) as the Aesti (Aestiorum gentes) and describes them as amber gatherers. Source: Internet
This however didn't mean yet that the dynastic family trees of both gentes got merged into a single one: that didn't happen until the adoption of Claudii by (adopted) Julii Caesares in the generations to come. Source: Internet