demos

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”). Doublet of deme. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdiːmɒs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiˌmɑs/, /ˈdiˌmɔs/ ==== Noun ==== demos (plural demoses or demoi) (originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. [from 18th c.] Synonym: deme (political science, singular or plural) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people. [from 18th c.] ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== demos plural of demo ==== Verb ==== demos third-person singular simple present indicative of demo === Further reading === deme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === desmo-, modes, Mode S, Domes, domes, desmo == Galician == === Noun === demos plural of demo === Verb === demos first-person plural preterite indicative of dar (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar: first-person plural preterite indicative first-person plural present subjunctive first-person plural imperative == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “[the common] people”). === Pronunciation === dēmos: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdeː.mɔs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdɛː.mos] dēmōs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdeː.moːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdɛː.mos] === Noun === dēmos m (genitive dēmī); second declension a tract of land, a demos, a deme the inhabitants of a dēmos: people, especially the common people AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30: pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter. In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ― translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (Greek-type). ==== Synonyms ==== (tract of land): pāgus (Pure Latin) (inhabitants of a demos): (people): populus (common people): vulgus ==== Related terms ==== dēmocratia (Mediaeval Latin) === Noun === dēmōs m accusative plural of dēmos === References === “dēmos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dēmŏs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 494/3. Lists both senses. Lists only the “people” sense. == Portuguese == === Pronunciation 1 === Hyphenation: de‧mos ==== Verb ==== demos first-person plural preterite indicative of dar === Pronunciation 2 === Hyphenation: de‧mos ==== Noun ==== demos plural of demo ==== Verb ==== demos inflection of dar: first-person plural present subjunctive first-person plural imperative ===== Alternative forms ===== dêmos == Romanian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Greek [script needed] (demos). === Noun === demos n (uncountable) demos ==== Declension ==== == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdemos/ [ˈd̪e.mos] Rhymes: -emos Syllabification: de‧mos === Noun === demos m pl plural of demo === Verb === demos inflection of dar: first-person plural present subjunctive first-person plural imperative