publicus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === poublicos (Old Latin) === Etymology === From Old Latin poplicus, from Old Latin poplus, which became Latin populus (“the people”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), of unknown origin. The change from -ŏp- to -ūb- is traditionally explained as paronymic attraction to pūbēs (“adult population; puberty; genitals”). An alternative explanation is that it is a regular sound change, divisible into two steps: voicing of -p-, then breaking of -o- to -ou- (subsequently monophthongized to -ū-). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.blɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.bli.kus] === Adjective === pūblicus (feminine pūblica, neuter pūblicum); first/second-declension adjective of or belonging to the people, state, or community Synonym: forēnsis public, general Synonym: forēnsis ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Noun === pūblicus m (genitive pūblicī); second declension a public officer, magistrate ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === === Further reading === “publicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "publicus", 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) “publicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.