popularis

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See also: populáris

Latin

Etymology

populus (people) +‎ -āris

Pronunciation

Adjective

populāris (neuter populāre, adverb populāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. popular (by, of or for the people)
    • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum :
      Populare nunc nihil tam est quam odium popularium.
      Nothing now is as popular as hatred of the popular .

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative populāris populāre populārēs populāria
Genitive populāris populārium
Dative populārī populāribus
Accusative populārem populāre populārēs
populārīs
populāria
Ablative populārī populāribus
Vocative populāris populāre populārēs populāria

Descendants

Noun

populāris m or f (genitive populāris); third declension

  1. compatriot, comrade

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in ).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative populāris populārēs
Genitive populāris populārium
Dative populārī populāribus
Accusative populārem populārēs
populārīs
Ablative populārī populāribus
Vocative populāris populārēs

Related terms

References

  • popularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • popularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • popularis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • popularis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence: ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid
    • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
    • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: populi favor, gratia popularis
    • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
    • (ambiguous) to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
    • (ambiguous) a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
    • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensio populi, popularis
    • (ambiguous) to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    • (ambiguous) a democrat: homo popularis
    • (ambiguous) a man who genuinely wishes the people's good: homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9)
    • (ambiguous) a democratic leader: homo florens in populari ratione
    • (ambiguous) democracy: imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
    • (ambiguous) to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles: causam popularem suscipere or defendere
    • (ambiguous) popular agitation: iactatio, concitatio popularis
    • (ambiguous) tricks of a demagogue: artes populares
  • popularis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016