RACE Copy link • RACE 1. s. Family, stock, etc., genus (general term): gens (all who belong to one stock; then, all who bear the same family names (nomina); opposed to familia, which denotes the subdivisions of a gens, distinguished by cognomina (family names): stirps (the stock of a family as sprung from a gens): homines qui aetate aliqua vivunt (men living at one time, contemporaries; e.g., hujus aetatis homines; qui nunc vivunt homines): an ancient race, genus antiquum; gens antiqua: to be of an ancient race, generis antiquitate florere: one of a very ancient race, homo veteris prosapiae et multarum imaginum; ex familia vetere natus. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago; proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri (Döderlein). Course, cursus, -ūs; curriculum; cursus certamen (foot-race): cursus or curriculum equorum; cursus equester (a horse-race). 2. v. cursu certare: certire pedibus: pedibus contendere (on foot): cursu equestri certare (with homes).