| Keywords |
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| ID |
17 |
| Text |
Etymologiarum sive Originum libri XX (622 - 633) Isidore of Seville |
| Quotation |
De gentium vocabulis. Gens est multitudo ab uno principio orta, sive ab alia natione secundum propriam collectionem distincta, ut Graeciae, Asiae.
Hinc et gentilitas dicitur.
Gens autem appellata propter generationes familiarum, id est a gignendo, sicut natio a nascendo. |
| Translation |
A nation (gens) is a number of people sharing a single origin, or distinguished from another nation (natio) in accordance with its own grouping, as the nations of Greece or of Asia Minor. From this comes the term ‘shared heritage’. The word gens is also so called on account of the generations of families, that is from ‘begetting’, as the term ‘nation’ comes from being born. (Barney-Lewis-Beach-Berghof, CUP 2006, p. 19) |
| Quotation source |
ix.2.1 |
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| Comment |
The word 'gens' refers to biological descent. |
