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gens| In ancient Rome, a gens was a clan or house that included a number of families with the same name descending from a common ancestor. The families also shared certain legal privileges and obligations, and religious rites. |
| Most Romans possessed three names and it was the middle name (nomen), as opposed to the first name (praenomen) and the last or family name (cognomen), that indicated the gens to which a person belonged. |
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