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

• dederunt enim regnum suum aliis et gloriam suam alienae genti; (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Ecclesiasticus, 49 49:7)

  그것은 예레미야가 예언한 대로였다. 사람들은 예레미야를 박해하였는데 사실 그는 모태에서부터 예언자로 성별되어 뽑고 부수고 파괴하며 세우고 심는 소명을 받았다. (불가타 성경, 집회서, 49장 49:7)

• Vae genti peccatrici, populo gravi iniquitate, semini nequam, filiis sceleratis! Dereliquerunt Dominum, blasphemaverunt Sanctum Israel, abalienati sunt retrorsum. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Isaiae, 1 1:4)

  아아, 탈선한 민족 죄로 가득 찬 백성 사악한 종자 타락한 자식들! 그들은 주님을 버리고 이스라엘의 거룩하신 분을 업신여겨 등을 돌리고 말았다. (불가타 성경, 이사야서, 1장 1:4)

• Noli dare alteri gloriam tuam et dignitates tuas genti alienae. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Baruch, 2 2:3)

  우리 가운데 어떤 사람은 제 아들의 살을, 또 어떤 사람은 제 딸의 살을 먹기까지 하였습니다. (불가타 성경, 바룩서, 2장 2:3)

• Et vendam filios vestros et filias vestras in manibus filiorum Iudae; et venumdabunt eos Sabaeis, genti longinquae, quia Dominus locutus est. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Prophetia Ioel, 4 4:8)

  (불가타 성경, 요엘서, 4장 4:8)

• Benedicite Dominum iustitiae et exaltate regem saeculorum. Ego in terra captivitatis meae confiteor illi et ostendo virtutem et maiestatem eius genti peccatorum. Convertimini, peccatores, et facite iustitiam coram illo. Quis scit, si velit vos et faciat vobis misericordiam? (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Thobis, 13, 3 13:6)

  (불가타 성경, 토빗기, 13장, 3장 13:6)

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