The gens was a Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

, Italic, or Etruscan

Etruscan civilization

Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany. The ancient Romans called its creators the Tusci or Etrusci...

 family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen

Roman naming conventions

By the Republican era and throughout the Imperial era, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen...

and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early Roman history.

The distinguishing characteristic of a gens was the nomen gentilicum, or gentile name. Every member of a gens, whether by birth or adoption, bore this name. All nomina were based on other nouns, such as personal names

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

, occupations, physical characteristics or behaviors, or locations. Consequently, most of them ended with the adjectival termination -ius (-ia in the feminine form).

Nomina ending in -aius, -eius, -eus, and -aeus are typical of Latin

Latins (Italic tribe)

The Latins were a people of ancient Italy who included the inhabitants of the early City of Rome. From ca. 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small part of the peninsula known to the Romans as Old Latium , that is, the region between the river Tiber and the promontory of Monte Circeo The Latins (or...

 families. Faliscan

Falisci

Falisci is the ancient Roman exonym for an Italic people who lived in what was then Etruria, on the Etruscan side of the Tiber River. The region is now entirely Lazio. They spoke an Italic language, Faliscan, closely akin to Latin. Originally a sovereign state, politically and socially they...

 gentes frequently had nomina ending in -ios, while Samnite

Samnium

Samnium is a Latin exonym for a region of south or south and central Italy in Roman times. The name survives in Italian today, but today's territory comprising it is only a small portion of what it once was. The populations of Samnium were called Samnites by the Romans...

 and other Oscan

Oscan language

Oscan is a term used to describe both an extinct language of southern Italy and the language group to which it belonged.The Oscan language was spoken by a number of tribes, including the Samnites, the Aurunci, the Sidicini, and the Ausones. The latter three tribes were often grouped under the name...

-speaking peoples of southern Italy had nomina ending in -iis. Umbrian

Umbri

The Umbri were an Italic people of ancient Italy. A region called Umbria still exists and is currently occupied by Italian speakers. It is somewhat smaller than the ancient Umbria....

 nomina typically end in -as, -anas, -enas, or -inas, while nomina ending in -arna, -erna, -ena, -enna, -ina, or -inna are characteristic of Etruscan families.

The word gens is feminine, and the name of a gens was also feminine. Marcus Valerius Corvus

Marcus Valerius Corvus

Marcus Valerius Corvus was a Roman general of the 4th century BC, characterized as a farmer who lived to be one hundred.-Biography:...

 was a member of gens Valeria. Valerius was his nomen. His son's nomen would have been Valerius, and his daughter's Valeria. Male members of his gens were called Valerii, and female members Valeriae. If a member of the gens were adopted into another family, he would assume the nomen of that gens, followed by the cognomen

Cognomen

The cognomen nōmen "name") was the third name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary. Hereditary cognomina were used to augment the second name in order to identify a particular branch within...

Valerianus.

In the following list, "I" and "J" are treated as separate letters, as are "U" and "V". The letter "K" was rare in Latin, and the few nomina occasionally spelled with this letter were usually spelled with "C". No Roman gentes began with "X", and the letters "Y" and "Z" occurred only in names borrowed from Greek. The letter "W" did not exist in Classical Latin.

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• Abronia
  Abronia (gens)
  The gens Abronia was a Roman family during the time of the emperor Augustus. The gens is known primarily by two persons, the poet Abronius Silo, and his son, who wrote for pantomimes....
  
  
• Aburia
  Aburia (gens)
  The gens Aburia was a plebeian family at Rome during the latter centuries of the Republic, and the 1st century of the Empire. The first member of this gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Aburius, praetor peregrinus in 176 BC....
  
  
• Accia
  Accia (gens)
  The gens Accia was a Roman family during the late Republic. The gens is known primarily from two individuals, Lucius Accius, a freedman and tragic poet of the 2nd century BC, and Titus Accius, a Roman eques who in 66 BC undertook the prosecution of Aulus Cluentius Habitus, defended by Cicero in...
  
  
• Accoleia
  Accoleia (gens)
  The gens Accoleia was a plebeian family at Rome during the 1st century BC Most of what is known of the family comes from various coins and inscriptions.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Acerronia
  Acerronia (gens)
  The gens Acerronia was a plebeian family at Rome during the late Republic and early Empire. The most distinguished member of the gens was Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus, consul in AD 37.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Acilia
• Actoria
  Actoria (gens)
  The gens Actoria was a Roman family during the late Republic. The best-known member of the gens is Marcus Actorius Naso, who wrote a life of Caesar, or a history of his times, which is quoted by Suetonius. The time at which he lived is uncertain, but from the way in which he is referred to by...
  
  
• Acutia
  Acutia (gens)
  The gens Acutia was a plebeian family at Rome, from the early Republic to imperial times. The first member of this gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Acutius, tribune of the plebs in 401 B.C.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Aebutia
  Aebutia (gens)
  The gens Aebutia was a Roman gens that was prominent during the early Republic. The family was originally patrician, but also had plebeian branches...
  
  
• Aelia
  Aelia (gens)
  The gens Aelia, occasionally written Ailia, was a plebeian family at Rome, which flourished from the 5th century BC until at least the 3rd century AD, a period of nearly eight hundred years. The archaic spelling Ailia is found on coins, but must not be confused with Allia, which seems to be a...
  
  
• Aemilia
• Afrania
  Afrania gens
  The gens Afrania was a plebeian family at Rome, which is first mentioned in the 2nd century BC. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Afranius Stellio, who became praetor in 185 BC.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Albia
  Albia (gens)
  The gens Albia was a plebeian family at Rome. No persons of this gens obtained any offices in the state till the 1st century BC They all bore the cognomen Carrinas.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Albinia
  Albinia (gens)
  The gens Albinia was a plebeian family at Rome during the early centuries of the Republic. The first member of this gens to achieve prominence was Lucius Albinius Paterculus, one of the first men to hold the office of tribune of the plebs, after it was created in 494 BC.-Origin of the gens:The...
  
  
• Albucia
  Albucia (gens)
  The gens Albucia or Albutia was a Roman family, known from the late 2nd century BC to the 1st century. The gens may have been of Ligurian or Gallic origin, as one the best-known individuals of this name was a native of the town of Novaria in Cisalpine Gaul.-Members of the gens:* Titus Albucius, an...
  
  
• Alfena
  Alfena (gens)
  The gens Alfena or Alfenia was a Roman family, known from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. The gens is known chiefly from three individuals, one of whom attained the consulship...
  
  
• Alfia
  Alfia (gens)
  The gens Alfia was a Roman family, known from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. The gens is known primarily from three individuals, including a statesman, a rhetorician, and a Latin poet. The cognomina of this family are Flavus, which means "golden" or "yellow", and Avitus, derived from...
  
  
• Aliena
  Aliena (gens)
  The gens Aliena or Alliena was a plebeian family of the Roman Republic. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Lucius Alienus, plebeian aedile in 454 BC...
  
  
• Amafinia
  Amafinia (gens)
  The gens Amafinia or Amafania was a Roman family during the late Republic. The best-known member of the gens was Gaius Amafinius, one of the earliest Roman writers in favor of the Epicurean philosophy. Cicero considered his works deficient in arrangement and style....
  
  
• Ampia
  Ampia (gens)
  The gens Ampia was a plebeian family at Rome, during the last century of the Republic, and into the 1st century AD. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Titus Ampius Balbus, who was first tribune of the plebs, then held the praetorship in 59 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:The...
  
  
• Ancharia
  Ancharia (gens)
  The gens Ancharia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Quintus Ancharius, a senator early in the 1st century BC.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Anicia
  Anicia (gens)
  The gens Anicia was a plebeian family at Rome, mentioned first towards the end of the 4th century BC The first of the Anicii under to achieve prominence under the Republic was Lucius Anicius Gallus, who conducted the war against the Illyrii during the Third Macedonian War, in 168 BC.A noble family...
  
  
• Annaea
  Annaea (gens)
  The gens Annaea was a plebeian family at Rome, during the 1st century BC and the early centuries of the Empire. Members of this gens were distinguished for their love of literary pursuits...
  
  
• Anneia
  Anneia (gens)
  The gens Anneia was a Roman family known from the last century of the Roman Republic. The gens is known chiefly from a single individual, Marcus Anneius, who was a legate of Cicero during his government in Cilicia, in 51 B.C., and subsequently commanded part of the Roman troops during Cicero's...
  
  
• Annia
  Annia (gens)
  The gens Annia was a plebeian family of considerable antiquity at Rome. The first person of this name whom Titus Livius mentions is the Latin praetor Lucius Annius of Setia, a Roman colony in 340 BC. By the time of the Second Punic War, the Annii were obtaining minor magistracies at Rome, and in...
  
  
• Antia
  Antia (gens)
  The gens Antia was a plebeian family at Roman, which seems to have been of considerable antiquity. The first member of the gens to come to prominence was Spurius Antius, one of four ambassadors sent to Lars Tolumnius, the king of Veii in 438 BC...
  
  
• Antistia
  Antistia (gens)
  The gens Antistia, sometimes written Antestia, was a plebeian family at Rome. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Sextus Antistius, tribune of the people in 422 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Antonia
  Antonia (gens)
  The gens Antonia was a Roman family of great antiquity, with both patrician and plebeian branches. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Titus Antonius Merenda, one of the second group of Decemviri called, in 450 BC, to help draft what became the Law of the Twelve Tables.-Origin of the...
  
  
• Aponia
  Aponia (gens)
  The gens Aponia was a Roman family during the later Republic, and the 1st century of the Empire. The gens is known from only a few individuals.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Appia
  Appia (gens)
  The gens Appia was a plebeian family at Rome. Its nomen, Appius, is a patronymic surname based on the praenomen Appius. The gens does not appear to have been very large, and none of its members achieved great importance.-References:...
  
  
• Appuleia
  Appuleia (gens)
  The gens Appuleia, occasionally written Apuleia, was a plebeian family at Rome, which flourished from the 5th century BC into imperial times. The first of the gens to achieve importance was Lucius Appuleius, tribune of the plebs in 391 BC....
  
  
• Apronia
  Apronia (gens)
  The gens Apronia was a plebeian family at Rome throughout the history of the Republic and into imperial times. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Apronius, tribune of the plebs in 449 BC...
  
  
• Apustia
  Apustia (gens)
  The gens Apustia was a plebeian family at Rome during the period of the Republic. The first member of this gens who obtained the consulship was Lucius Apustius Fullo, in 226 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Aquillia
• Aquinia
  Aquinia (gens)
  The gens Aquinia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known primarily from two individuals.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Arellia
  Arellia (gens)
  The gens Arellia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known primarily from three individuals.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Arennia
  Arennia (gens)
  The gens Arennia was a plebeian family at Rome during the period of the Punic Wars. It is known chiefly from two individuals, probably brothers, who held the office of tribune of the plebs in 210 B.C., during the War with Hannibal.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Arpineia
  Arpineia (gens)
  The gens Arpineia was a Roman family of the 1st century BC. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Gaius Arpineius, an eques in the army of Gaius Julius Caesar during the Gallic War.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Arria
  Arria (gens)
  The gens Arria was a plebeian family at Rome, which appears in the 1st century BC, and became quite large in imperial times. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Quintus Arrius, praetor in 72 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Arruntia
  Arruntia (gens)
  The gens Arruntia was a plebeian family at Rome, which came to prominence during the 1st century BC.-Origin of the gens:The nomen Arruntius is a patronymic surname, based on the Etruscan praenomen Arruns, which must have been borne by the ancestor of the gens.-Members of the gens:* Arruntius,...
  
  
• Articuleia
  Articuleia (gens)
  The gens Articuleia was a Roman family during imperial times. The gens is known from Sextus Articuleius Paetus, consul with the emperor Trajan in AD 101.-References:...
  
  
• Asconia
  Asconia (gens)
  The gens Asconia was a plebeian family at Rome during the 1st century. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Quintus Asconius Pedianus, a commentator on Cicero. There is some reason to believe that he was a native of Patavium, in which case the gens may be of Venetic or Etruscan...
  
  
• Asinia
  Asinia (gens)
  The gens Asinia was a plebeian family at Rome, which rose to prominence during the 1st century BC. The first person of the name of Asinius, who occurs in history, is Herius Asinius, in the Marsic War, 90 BC.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Ateia
  Ateia (gens)
  The gens Ateia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known from a small number of individuals.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Aternia
  Aternia (gens)
  The gens Aternia was a patrician family at Rome in the early years of the Republic. The only member of the gens to hold the consulship was Aulus Aternius Varus in 454 B.C. Six years later, he became one of the only patricians ever to hold the office of tribune of the plebs, without first leaving...
  
  
• Atia
  Atia (gens)
  The gens Atia, sometimes written Attia, was a plebeian family at Rome. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Lucius Atius, a military tribune in 178 BC. Several of the Atii served in the Civil War between Caesar and Pompeius...
  
  
• Atilia
• Atinia
  Atinia (gens)
  The gens Atinia was a plebeian family at Rome. None of the members of this gens ever attained the consulship; and the first who held any of the higher offices of the state was Gaius Atinius Labeo, who was praetor in 195 BC....
  
  
• Atria
  Atria (gens)
  The gens Atria was a Roman family, known primarily from two individuals who flourished during the middle years of the 1st century BC.Quintus Atrius was a lieutenant of Caesar during his second expedition into Britannia in 54 BC, who was left on the coast to take care of the ships, while Caesar...
  
  
• Attia
  Attia (gens)
  The gens Attia was a plebeian family at Rome, which may be identical with the gens Atia, sometimes spelled with a double t. The gens is known primarily from two individuals: Publius Attius Atimetus, a physician to Augustus, and another physician of the same name, who probably lived later during...
  
  
• Aufidia
  Aufidia (gens)
  The gens Aufidia was a plebeian family at Rome, which is not known till the later times of the Republic. The first member to obtain the consulship was Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes, in 71 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Aulia
  Aulia (gens)
  The gens Aulia was a Roman family during the period of the Republic, and was probably plebeian. They do not appear to have been particularly numerous, but one member of the gens, Quintus Aulius Cerretanus, obtained the consulship twice during the Second Samnite War, in 323 and 319 BC.-Origin of...
  
  
• Aurelia
• Auria
  Auria (gens)
  The gens Auria was a Roman family at Larinum in southern Italy, known chiefly from Cicero's oration, Pro Cluentio.-Praenomina used by the gens:The Aurii are known to have used the praenomina Marcus, Numerius, Aulus, and Gaius....
  
  
• Aurunculeia
  Aurunculeia (gens)
  The gens Aurunculeia was a plebeian family at Rome. None of the members of this gens ever obtained the consulship; the first who obtained the praetorship was Gaius Aurunculeius, in 209 BC.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Autronia
  Autronia (gens)
  The gens Autronia was a plebeian family at Rome. Persons of this gens first came into notice in the last century of the Republic; the first member who obtained the consulship was Publius Autronius Paetus, in 65 BC.-Branches and cognomina of the gens:...
  
  
• Aviena
  Aviena (gens)
  The gens Aviena was a Roman family during the 1st century BC It is known chiefly from a single individual, Gaius Avienus, a military tribune with the tenth legion, who was ignominiously dismissed from the army, on account of misconduct in the African war, in 46 BC.-References:...
  
  
• Avidia
  Avidia (gens)
  The gens Avidia was a Roman family during the early centuries of the Empire. Several of its members rose to prominence during the late 1st and 2nd centuries.-Branches and cognomina of the gens:...
  
  
• Axia
  Axia (gens)
  The gens Axia, also spelled Axsia, was a plebeian family at Rome during the final century of the Republic. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, although at least some of the family were reasonably wealthy....
  
  

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• Baebia
• Balventia
  Balventia (gens)
  The gens Balventia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Titus Balventius, a primus pilus in the command of Quintus Titurius Sabinus in Gaul. He was severely wounded in the attack made by Ambiorix in 54 B.C....
  
  
• Bantia
  Bantia (gens)
  The gens Bantia was a Roman family during the time of the Republic. It is known chiefly from a single member, Lucius Bantius. He was a native of Nola in Campania and served in the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C. Bantius was wounded and captured by Hannibal, but was treated kindly...
  
  
• Barbatia
  Barbatia (gens)
  The gens Barbatia was a Roman family during the 1st century BC. It may have originated with Marcus Barbatius Philippus, a runaway slave who became a friend of Caesar, and subsequently obtained the praetorship under Marcus Antonius. In 40 BC he was quaestor propraetore under Antonius.-References:...
  
  
• Betiliena
  Betiliena (gens)
  The gens Betiliena was a Roman family known from the early decades of the imperial era. It is known chiefly from two individuals. Betilienus Bassus was triumvir monetalis in the reign of Augustus, and is probably the same man who was later put to death by order of Caligula in AD 40...
  
  
• Betucia
  Betucia (gens)
  The gens Betucia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known as a result of the orator, Titus Betucius Barrus, a native of Asculum in Picenum. Cicero described him as the most eloquent of all orators outside of Rome. He also delivered a famous speech at Rome against Quintus...
  
  
• Blossia
  Blossia (gens)
  The gens Blossia, also spelled Blosia was a Roman family of Campanian origin, which came to prominence during the Second Punic War. The most famous member of the gens is probably Gaius Blossius, an intimate friend of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, whom he urged to bring forward his agrarian law...
  
  
• Bruttia
• Bucculeia
  Bucculeia (gens)
  The gens Bucculeia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Marcus Bucculeius, a legal scholar, mentioned in a humorous anecdote of Cicero, and attributed by him to the orator Lucius Licinius Crassus....
  
  
• Burriena
  Burriena (gens)
  The gens Burriena was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Gaius Burrienus, praetor urbanus about 82 B.C....
  
  

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• Caecia
  Caecia (gens)
  The gens Caecia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It does not seem to have been particularly large or important. Its best-known member was Gaius Caecius, a friend of the younger Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, spoken of by Cicero in 49 B.C....
  
  
• Caecilia
  Caecilia (gens)
  The gens Caecilia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are mentioned in history as early as the 5th century BC, but the first of the Caecilii who obtained the consulship was Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter, in 284 BC....
  
  
• Caecina
  Caecina (gens)
  Caecina was the name of an Etruscan family of Volaterrae, one of the ancient cities of Etruria. Persons of this gens are first mentioned in the 1st century BC. Under the Empire the name is of frequent occurrence...
  
  
• Caedicia
  Caedicia (gens)
  The gens Caedicia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens first came to prominence in the early decades of the Republic, but the first who obtained the consulship was Quintus Caedicius Noctua in 289 BC...
  
  
• Caelia
  Caelia (gens)
  The gens Caelia or Coelia was a plebeian family at Rome. In manuscripts the nomen is usually written Caelius, while on coins it generally occurs in the form of Coelius or Coilius, though we find on one coin L. Caelius Tax. From the similarity of the names, Caelius is frequently confounded with...
  
  
• Caeparia
  Caeparia (gens)
  The gens Caeparia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known from two individuals: Marcus Caeparius of Tarracina, one of the conspirators of Catiline, who was supposed to induce the people of rural Apulia to revolt, in 63 BC; and another Marcus Caeparius, mentioned by Cicero in...
  
  
• Caepasia
  Caepasia (gens)
  The gens Caepasia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known from two brothers, Gaius and Lucius Hortensius, who obtained the quaestorship through their oratory. Cicero describes them as contemporaries of the orator Quintus Hortensius, and says that they were very industrious,...
  
  
• Caerellia
  Caerellia (gens)
  The gens Caerellia was a minor Roman family during the late Republic and in imperial times. It is known from only a few individuals. Caerellia was a wealthy friend of Cicero, distinguished for her love of philosophical pursuits. Caerellius Priscus was governor of Roman Britain in the late 2nd...
  
  
• Caesennia
  Caesennia (gens)
  The gens Caesennia was an Etruscan family at Tarquinii during the late Republic and in imperial times. Two of its members were mentioned by Cicero, and the name is found in sepulchral inscriptions.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Caesetia
  Caesetia (gens)
  The gens Caesetia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known from a small number of individuals.-Members of the gens:* Publius Caesetius, the quaestor of Verres.* Gaius Caesetius, an eques, who entreated Caesar to pardon Quintus Ligarius....
  
  
• Caesia
• Caesonia
  Caesonia (gens)
  The gens Caesonia was a plebeian family at Rome, during the late Republic and into imperial times.-Origin of the gens:The nomen Caesonius is a patronymic surname, based on the praenomen Caeso, which must have belonged to the ancestor of the gens.-Members of the gens:* Marcus Caesonius, praetor,...
  
  
• Caesulena
  Caesulena (gens)
  The gens Caesulena was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known from the orator Lucius Caesulenus, whom Cicero describes as a vulgar man, skilled at drawing suspicions upon persons, and in making them out to be criminals. He was already an old man when Cicero heard him....
  
  
• Caetronia
  Caetronia (gens)
  The gens Caetronia was a Roman family during the early decades of the Empire. It is best known from Gaius Caetronius, legate of the first legion in Germania at the accession of the emperor Tiberius. Following a mutiny of the soldiers, Caetronius held a court martial at which the leaders were...
  
  
• Calavia
  Calavia (gens)
  The gens Calavia was a distinguished Campanian family of Roman times. Several members of the gens were involved in the events of the Samnite Wars and during the Second Punic War...
  
  
• Calidia
  Calidia (gens)
  The gens Calidia or Callidia was a Roman family during the final century of the Republic. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Quintus Calidius, tribune of the plebs in 99 and praetor in 79 B.C.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Calpurnia
• Calvisia
• Cania
  Cania (gens)
  The gens Cania was a Roman family during the late Republic and in imperial times. None of its members obtained any important magistracies.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Canidia
  Canidia (gens)
  The gens Canidia was a Roman family of the late Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Publius Canidius Crassus, consul suffectus in 40 B.C., and the chief general of Marcus Antonius. Canidia was also a sobriquet bestowed upon Gratidia, a Neapolitan hetaera who had deserted the poet...
  
  
• Caninia
  Caninia (gens)
  The gens Caninia was a plebeian family at Rome during the later Republic. The first member of the gens who obtained any of the curule offices was Gaius Caninius Rebilus, praetor in 171 BC; but the first Caninius who was consul was his namesake, Gaius Caninius Rebilus, in 45 BC.-Origin of the...
  
  
• Cantia
  Cantia (gens)
  The gens Cantia was a plebeian family at Rome. It is known primarily from a single individual, Marcus Cantius, tribune of the plebs in 293 B.C. He brought an indictment against Lucius Postumius Megellus, one of the consuls of the preceding year. Postumius, however, was appointed legate to the...
  
  
• Cantilia
  Cantilia (gens)
  The gens Cantilia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Lucius Cantilius, secretary of the pontiffs in 216 B.C., during the Second Punic War....
  
  
• Canuleia
  Canuleia (gens)
  The gens Canuleia was a plebeian family at Rome. Although members of the gens are known throughout the period of the Roman Republic, none of them ever obtained the consulship...
  
  
• Canutia
  Canutia (gens)
  The gens Canutia or Cannutia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens appears toward the end of the Republic, and is best known from two individuals, the orator Publius Canutius, and Tiberius Canutius, tribune of the plebs in 44 B.C., the year of Caesar's assassination...
  
  
• Carfulena
  Carfulena (gens)
  The gens Carfulena was a plebeian family at Rome towards the end of the Republic. The gens is best known from Decimus Carfulenus, called Carsuleius by Appianus, who served under Caesar during the Alexandrine War in 47 B.C., was tribune of the plebs in 44, the year of Caesar's assassination, and...
  
  
• Carisia
  Carisia (gens)
  The gens Carisia was a Roman family during the latter half of the 1st century BC The most famous member of the gens was Titus Carisius, who defeated the Astures in Hispania, and took their chief town, Lancia, circa 25 BC; but in consequence of his cruelty and insolence, the Astures took up arms...
  
  
• Carpinatia
  Carpinatia (gens)
  The gens Carpinatia was a Roman family towards the end of the Republic. It is best known from a single individual, Lucius Carpinatius, one of the publicani in Sicily during the government of Verres, with whom he was very intimate...
  
  
• Carteia
  Carteia (gens)
  The gens Carteia was a Roman family towards the end of the Republic. It is best remembered for a single individual, Lucius Carteius, a friend of Gaius Cassius Longinus, who was with Cassius in Syria in 43 B.C....
  
  
• Carvilia
  Carvilia (gens)
  The gens Carvilia was a plebeian gens at Rome, which first distinguished itself during the Samnite Wars. The first member of the gens to achieve the consulship was Spurius Carvilius Maximus, in 293 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Cassia
• Castricia
  Castricia (gens)
  The gens Catricia was a Roman family during the later Republic and under the early Empire. None of the members of the gens held any important magistracy.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Castrinia
  Castrinia (gens)
  The gens Castrinia or Castronia was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is best known a single individual, Lucius Castrinius Paetus, mentioned in a letter from Marcus Caelius Rufus to Cicero in 51 BC. He is probably the same person as Lucius Castronius Paetus, the leading man in the...
  
  
• Catia
  Catia (gens)
  The gens Catia was a plebeian family at Rome from the time of the Second Punic War to the 3rd century The gens achieved little importance during the Republic, but held several consulships in imperial times.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Catiena
  Catiena (gens)
  The gens Catiena was a Roman family during the late Republic. It is known chiefly from a single individual, Titus Catienus. Cicero describes him as an eques of low and mean character, who was angry with his brother, Quintus Tullius Cicero....
  
  
• Catilia
  Catilia (gens)
  The gens Catilia was a Roman family of imperial times. It is best known from Lucius Catilius Severus, consul in AD 120, and subsequently praefectus urbi. He was the maternal proavus, or great-grandfather, of the emperor Marcus Aurelius...
  
  
• Ceionia
  Ceionia (gens)
  The gens Ceionia was a Roman family of imperial times. The first member of the gens to obtain the consulship was Lucius Ceionius Commodus in AD 78. The rise of this family culminated in the elevation of the emperor Lucius Aurelius Verus, born Lucius Ceionius Commodus, in AD 161.-Origin of the...
  
  
• Centenia
  Centenia (gens)
  The gens Centenia was a Roman family in the time of the Second Punic War. It is best known from two individuals, Gaius Centenius, propraetor in 217 B.C., whose cavalry force was defeated by Maharbal, and Marcus Centenius Penula, a veteran centurion distinguished for his bravery, who was granted a...
  
  
• Cestia
  Cestia (gens)
  The gens Cestia was a plebeian family at Rome during the later Republic, and in imperial times. The first member of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Cestius Gallus in AD 35...
  
  
• Cicereia
  Cicereia (gens)
  The gens Cicereia was a Roman family during the time of the Republic. It is known primarily from a single individual, Gaius Cicereius, the scriba, or secretary, of Scipio Africanus, who was elected praetor in 173 B.C. He obtained the province of Sardinia, but was ordered by the senate to conduct...
  
  
• Cilnia
  Cilnia (gens)
  The gens Cilnia was an Etruscan family during the time of the Roman Republic. The gens is best known from Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, a trusted friend and advisor of Augustus, who was famous for his immense wealth and patronage of the arts....
  
  
• Cincia
  Cincia (gens)
  The gens Cincia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who was elected praetor in 209 BC.-Praenomina used by the gens:...
  
  
• Cispia
  Cispia (gens)
  The gens Cispia was a plebeian family at Rome. Although the gens was supposedly of great antiquity, the Cispii only achieved prominence toward the end of the Republic.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Claudia
• Cloelia
• Cluentia
  Cluentia (gens)
  The gens Cluentia was a Roman family of the late Republic. The gens first appears during the Social War, in which Lucius Cluentius was general of the Pompeiian forces...
  
  
• Cluvia
  Cluvia (gens)
  The gens Cluvia was a Roman family during the later Republic, and early imperial times. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Cluvius Saxula, praetor in 175 and 173 BC.-Origin of the gens:The Cluvii were of Campanian origin...
  
  
• Cocceia
• Cominia
• Consentia
• Considia
• Coponia
• Corfidia
• Cornelia
• Cornificia
• Coruncania
• Cosconia
• Cossinia
• Cossutia
• Cotia
• Crassitia
• Crepereia
• Critonia
• Cupiennia
• Curia
• Curiatia
• Curtia
• Curtilia
• Cuspia

F

• Fabia
• Flavia
  Flavius
  Flavius was a gens of ancient Rome, meaning "blond". The feminine form was Flavia.After the end of the popular Flavian dynasty of emperors, Flavius/Flavia became a praenomen, common especially among royalty: the adoption of this praenomen by Constantine I set a precedent for some imperial...
  
  
• Foslia
• Fundania
• Furia

H

• Hateria
• Herminia
  Herminia (gens)
  The gens Herminia was an ancient patrician house at Rome. Members of the gens appear during the first war between the Roman Republic and the Etruscans, circa 508 BC, and from then to 448 BC...
  
  
• Horatia
  Horatia (gens)
  The gens Horatia was an ancient patrician family at Rome. In legend, the gens dates back to the time of Tullus Hostilius, the third King of Rome. One of its members, Marcus Horatius Pulvillus, was consul suffectus in 509 BC, the first year of the Republic, and again in 507...
  
  
• Hostilia
  Hostilia (gens)
  thumb|250px|Tullus Hostilius defeating the army of [[Veii]] and [[Fidenae]], modern fresco.The gens Hostilia was an ancient family at Rome, which traced its origin to the time of Romulus. The most famous member of the gens was Tullus Hostilius, the third King of Rome; however, all of the Hostilii...
  
  

L

• Laelia
• Lartia
  Lartia (gens)
  The gens Lartia, sometimes spelled Larcia or Largia, was a patrician family at Rome, distinguished at the beginning of the Republic through two of its members, Titus Lartius, the first dictator, and Spurius Lartius, the companion of Horatius on the wooden bridge. The name soon after disappears...
  
  
• Licinia
• Livia
  Livius
  Livius is the nomen of an individual male of the Livia gens, a family of ancient Rome. Collectively they were termed the Livii . Any individual female was called Livia. Both male and female names might be qualified by one or more agnomina. Males in addition had a praenomen...
  
  
• Lollia
  Lollia (gens)
  The gens Lollia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of the gens do not appear at Rome until the last century of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the consulship was Marcus Lollius, in 21 BC.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Lucilia
• Lucretia
  Lucretia (gens)
  The gens Lucretia was a prominent family of the Roman Republic. Originally patrician, the gens later included a number of plebeian families. The Lucretii were one of the most ancient gentes, and the wife of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, was named Lucretia...
  
  

M

• Mamilia
• Manilia
• Manlia
• Marcia
• Maria
  Maria (gens)
  The gens Maria was a plebeian family at Rome. Its most celebrated member was Gaius Marius, one of the greatest generals of antiquity, and seven times consul.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Memmia
  Memmia (gens)
  The gens Memmia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Memmius Gallus, praetor in 173 BC. From the period of the Jugurthine War to the age of Augustus they contributed numerous tribunes to the Republic.-Origin of the gens:The poet Vergilius...
  
  
• Menenia
  Menenia (gens)
  The gens Menenia was a very ancient and illustrious patrician house at Rome from the earliest days of the Roman Republic to the first half of the 4th century BC. The first of the family to obtain the consulship was Agrippa Menenius Lanatus in 503 BC...
  
  
• Minucia
• Modia
  Modia (gens)
  The gens Modia was a minor family at Ancient Rome, known from a small number of individuals.-Praenomina used by the gens:The Modii are known to have used the praenomina Quintus, Septimus, Marcus, Gaius, and Lucius.-Members of the gens:...
  
  
• Mucia
  Mucia (gens)
  The gens Mucia was an ancient and noble patrician house at Rome. The gens is first mentioned at the earliest period of the Republic, but in later times the family was known primarily by its plebeian branches.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  

N

• Naevia
• Ninnia
  Ninnia (gens)
  The gens Ninnia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of the gens first appear at Capua during the Second Punic War, and are found at Rome towards the end of the Republic.-Origin of the gens:...
  
  
• Nonia
• Numicia

O

• Otacilia
• Octavia
• Oppia
• Ovidia

P

• Papiria
• Pinaria
• Pompeia
• Pompilia
  Pompilia (gens)
  The gens Pompilia was a plebeian family at Rome during the time of the Republic. The only member of the gens to achieve any prominence in the state was Sextus Pompilius, who was tribune of the plebs in 420 BC; however, persons by this name are occasionally found throughout the history of the...
  
  
• Pomponia
  Pomponia (gens)
  The gens Pomponia was a plebeian family at Rome throughout the period of the Republic and into imperial times. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Pomponius, tribune of the plebs in 449 BC; the first who obtained the consulship was Manius Pomponius Matho in 233 BC.-Origin of the...
  
  
• Porcia
• Postumia
  Postumia (gens)
  The gens Postumia was one of the most ancient patrician gentes at Rome. Its members frequently held the highest office of the state, from the banishment of the kings to the downfall of the Republic...
  
  
• Potitia
  Potitia (gens)
  The gens Potitia was one of the most ancient patrician families at Rome. It never attained any historical importance.The story of the Potitii is inextricably intertwined with that of the Pinarii. According to legend, a generation before the Trojan War, Hercules came to Italy, where he was received...
  
  
• Publicia
• Publilia

R

• Rabiria
• Remmia
• Romilia
• Rutilia

S

• Sempronia
• Septimia
  Septimia (gens)
  The gens Septimia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens first appears in history towards the close of the Republic, and they did not achieve much importance until the latter half of the 2nd century, when Lucius Septimius Severus obtained the imperial dignity.-Origin of the gens:The nomen...
  
  
• Sergia
• Sertoria
  Sertoria (gens)
  The gens Sertoria was a Roman family, probably of Sabine origin. It was relatively undistinguished, except for the Roman general Quintus Sertorius , who fought alongside Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna, and later established an independent state in Hispania during the dictatorship of...
  
  
• Servilia
  Servilia (gens)
  The gens Servilia was a patrician family at Rome. The gens was celebrated during the early ages of the Republic, and the names of few gentes appear more frequently at this period in the consular Fasti. It continued to produce men of influence in the state down to the latest times of the Republic,...
  
  
• Sestia
  Sestia (gens)
  The gens Sestia was a family at Rome. The gens was originally patrician, but in later times there were also plebeian members. The only member of the family to obtain the consulship under the Republic was Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus, in 452 BC.-Origin of the gens:The nomen Sestius is...
  
  
• Sextia
  Sextia (gens)
  The gens Sextia was a plebeian family at Rome, from the time of the early Republic and continuing into imperial times. The most famous member of the gens was Lucius Sextius Lateranus, who as tribune of the plebs from 376 to 367 BC, prevented the election of the annual magistrates, until the...
  
  
• Sextilia
  Sextilia (gens)
  The gens Sextilia was a plebeian family at Rome. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Sextilius, consular tribune in 379 BC...
  
  
• Sulpicia
• Sicinia

T

• Tarpeia
• Tarquinia
• Tarquitia
• Terentia
• Titia
  Titia (gens)
  The gens Titia was a plebeian family at Rome. The gens is rarely mentioned in the Republican period, and did not rise out of obscurity till a very late time...
  
  
• Tullia

V

• Valeria
  Valerius
  Valerius is the nomen of gens Valeria, one of the oldest patrician families of Rome. The name was in use throughout Roman history...
  
  
• Verginia
  Verginia (gens)
  The gens Verginia or Virginia was a prominent family at Rome, which from an early period was divided into patrician and plebeian branches. The gens was of great antiquity, and frequently filled the highest honors of the state during the early years of the Republic...
  
  
• Veturia
  Veturia (gens)
  The gens Veturia, anciently called Vetusia, was a patrician family at Rome, which also had plebeian branches. The patrician branch was of great antiquity; according to tradition, one of their number, Mamurius Veturius, lived in the time of Numa Pompilius, and made the sacred ancilia.The Veturii...
  
  
• Vipsania
• Visellia
  Visellia (gens)
  The gens Visellia was a family at Rome during the late Republic and early Empire. Two members of this gens achieved the consulship during the 1st century AD-Praenomina used by the gens:...