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==Origin==

==Origin==

[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin gentilis, from [[Latin]] gent-, gens [[nation]] (from which, together with forms of the cognate Greek word genos, also derive [[gene]], general, genus and [[genesis]]). The [[original]] [[meaning]] of "clan" or "[[family]]" was extended in post-Augustan Latin to acquire the wider meaning of belonging to a distinct nation or ethnicity. Later still the word came to refer to other nations, 'not a Roman citizen'. After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_seven_Ecumenical_Councils Christianization of the empire] it could also be used of [[pagan]] or [[barbarian]] [[cultures]].

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin gentilis, from [[Latin]] gent-, gens [[nation]] (from which, together with forms of the cognate Greek word genos, also derive [[gene]], general, genus and [[genesis]]). The [[original]] [[meaning]] of "clan" or "[[family]]" was extended in post-Augustan Latin to acquire the wider meaning of belonging to a distinct nation or ethnicity. Later still the word came to refer to other nations, 'not a Roman citizen'. After the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_seven_Ecumenical_Councils Christianization of the empire] it could also be used of [[pagan]] or [[barbarian]] [[cultures]].

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==