populus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Old Latin populus (since mid-2nd c. BC), from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos (attested already since early 5th c. BC), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), further origin unknown; perhaps from Etruscan or from the root of pleō (Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). See also plēbs, from the root of pleō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɔ.pʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɔː.pu.lus] ==== Noun ==== populus m (genitive populī); second declension a people, nation a community of people the people, public, crowd, host, multitude (Medieval Latin) a group of people (Medieval Latin) a parish, part of a city ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== popellus populātiō populāris populō populōsus vōx populī ===== Related terms ===== pūblicus Pūblius ===== Descendants ===== ==== References ==== “populus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pŏpŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 180 === Etymology 2 === Unknown. Compare Ancient Greek πτελέα (pteléa, “elm”), Proto-Slavic *topolь (“poplar”). Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *po-h₂pel-o-, from a root *h₂pel- also found in Ancient Greek ἀπελλόν (apellón), although the initial *po- is left unexplained. It is possible that some or all of these terms were borrowed from the same substrate continuum. ==== Alternative forms ==== *plōppus (Vulgar Latin) ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpoː.pʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɔː.pu.lus] ==== Noun ==== pōpulus f (genitive pōpulī); second declension poplar tree ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== pōpuleus pōpulnea pōpulus tremula ===== Descendants ===== See also *plōppus § Descendants. ==== References ==== === Further reading === “populus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “populus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "populus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “populus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “populus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers populus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “populus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin