Where does “gens” come from?
gens (French) comes from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁os — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
gens (French): set of people
Ancestry of “gens”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 2 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 3 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 4 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 6 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |