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The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early Roman history .
This is a list of Roman nomina. The nomen identified all free Roman citizens as members of individual gentes, originally families sharing a single nomen and claiming descent from a common ancestor. Over centuries, a gens could expand from a single family to a large clan, potentially including hundreds or even thousands of members.
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This is an index of family trees on the English Wikipedia. It includes noble, politically important, and royal families as well as fictional families and thematic diagrams. This list is organized according to alphabetical order.
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Gaius (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ ə s /), feminine Gaia, is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, and was one of the most common names throughout Roman history. [1] The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic gens Gavia.
By contrast, in imperial times the cognomen became the principal distinguishing element of the Roman name, and although praenomina never completely vanished, the essential elements of the Roman name from the second century onward were the nomen and cognomen. [2] Naming conventions for women also varied from the classical concept of the tria ...
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