뜻

1. 로마 씨족
2. 부족
3. 최고 신, 주신(主神)

1. Roman clan, related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name.
2. tribe; people
3. the chief gods

예문

• Faciamque te in gentem magnam et benedicam tibi et magnificabo nomen tuum, erisque in benedictionem. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 12 12:2)

  나는 너를 큰 민족이 되게 하고, 너에게 복을 내리며, 너의 이름을 떨치게 하겠다. 그리하여 너는 복이 될 것이다. (불가타 성경, 창세기, 12장 12:2)

• Verumtamen et gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo, et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 15 15:14)

  그러나 네 후손이 종이 되어 섬길 민족을 나는 심판하겠다. 그런 다음, 네 후손은 많은 재물을 가지고 나올 것이다. (불가타 성경, 창세기, 15장 15:14)

• Super Ismael quoque exaudivi te: ecce benedicam ei et crescere faciam et multiplicabo eum vehementissime; duodecim duces generabit, et faciam illum in gentem magnam. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 17 17:20)

  이스마엘을 위한 너의 소원도 들어 주겠다. 나는 그에게 복을 내리고, 그가 자식을 많이 낳아 크게 번성하게 하겠다. 그는 열두 족장을 낳고, 나는 그를 큰 민족으로 만들어 줄 것이다. (불가타 성경, 창세기, 17장 17:20)

• cum futurus sit in gentem magnam ac robustissimam, et benedicendae sint in illo omnes nationes terrae? (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 18 18:18)

  아브라함은 반드시 크고 강한 민족이 되고, 세상 모든 민족들이 그를 통하여 복을 받을 것이다. (불가타 성경, 창세기, 18장 18:18)

• Abimelech vero non tetigerat eam. Et ait: "Domine, num gentem etiam iustam interficies? (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 20 20:4)

  아비멜렉은 아직 그 여자를 가까이하지 않았으므로, 이렇게 아뢰었다. “주님, 당신께서는 죄 없는 백성도 죽이십니까? (불가타 성경, 창세기, 20장 20:4)

유의어 사전

1. Gens and natio denote a people, in a physical sense, in the description of nations, as a society originating in common descent and relationship, without any apparent reference to civilization; whereas populus and civitas denote a people in a political sense, as a society formed by civilization and compact. Sall. Cat. 10, 1. Nationes feræ et populi ingentes subacti. Cic. Rep. i. 25. 2. Gens (γενετή) includes all people of the same descent, like φῦλον; natio (from γνήσιος) a single colony of the same, like ἔθνος. Vell. P. ii. 98. Omnibus ejus gentis nationibus in arma accensis. Tac. G. 2, 38. But as gens, in this physical sense, as the complex term for several colonies, has a more comprehensive meaning than natio, so has it, at the same time, in its political accessory meaning, as a clan, γένος, or as the complex term for several families, a narrower meaning than populus; hence sometimes populus forms, as a civilized natio, a part of the natural gens. Liv. iv. 49. Bolanis suæ gentis populo, and Virg. A. x. 202; sometimes gens, as a political society, forms a part of populus: Justin. vii. 1. Adunatis gentibus variorum populorum. 3. Civitas (from κείω) denotes the citizens of a town collectively, πόλις, merely with regard to their interior connection, as including the inhabitants who are in the enjoyment of the full rights of citizenship, and the lawful possessors of the land; populus (redupl. of πόλις) means the people, δῆμος, more commonly in reference to their social relations, interior and exterior, and with the included notion of belonging to the state. A people can determine upon war as a civitas; but can carry it on only as a populus. A civitas is necessarily stationary; but a populus may consist of Nomades, or wanderers from one pasture to another.

1. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms, for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago, proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. 2. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families, Cic. Univ. 11. Quintil. i. 6, 40; posteritas, the usual prosaic, progenies, a select, elevated expression, Cic. Rep. ii. 22; proles and suboles, poetical expressions, Cic. Or. iii. 38; proles denotes children, as fruits destined, as a younger race, to exist with their parents; suboles, as an after-growth, destined to supply the place of the generation that is dying off. 3. Gens (γενετή) is a political, genus (γένος), a natural race. Gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings. (v. 307).

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein