| Keywords |
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| ID |
4 |
| Text |
Liber in partibus Donati (800 - 812) Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel |
| Quotation |
De gentis et patriae. Gentis sunt nomina, quae ab antiquo suo semper dirivata sunt genere, ut Hebreus ab Heber, Grecus a Greco, Latinus a Latino et similia. |
| Translation |
About people and homeland names. People names are those which are always derived from an ancient family of their own, like Hebreus from (an ancestor called) Heber, Grecus from (an ancestor called) Grecus, Latinus (from an ancestor called) Latinus and so on.(C. Grifoni) |
| Summary |
People names derive from an ancestor's own name. |
| Quotation source |
p. 25, 318-321 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The word "gens" seems to be used in order to indicate a big family (biological descent). |
