vulgus

== English == === Noun === vulgus (plural vulguses) (UK, education, historical) A school exercise in which pupils are tasked with writing a short piece of Greek or Latin verse on a given subject. == Latin == === Alternative forms === volgus === Etymology === May be from Proto-Italic *wolgos or *welgos, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to throng, crowd”), whence also Welsh gwala (“sufficiency, enough”), Middle Breton gwalc'h (“abundance”), Sanskrit वर्ग (varga, “group, division”); see also Latin volvō (“to roll, turn over”) for the same or a similar root. Some have attempted, without success, to link it to Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go-s, whence English folk. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwʊɫ.ɡʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvul.ɡus] === Noun === vulgus n sg or m sg (genitive vulgī); second declension (uncountable) the common people (uncountable) the public throng, crowd Synonyms: multitūdō, turba gathering ==== Declension ==== Second declension noun (neuter or masculine, with nominative/accusative/vocative in -us). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vulgus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "vulgus", 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) “vulgus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.