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Latin
Etymology 1
From populor (“lay waste”) + -tiō.
Noun
populātiō f (genitive populātiōnis); third declension
- the act of laying waste or plundering
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.15:
- Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere.
- Caesar restrained his men from battle, deeming it sufficient for the present to prevent the enemy from rapine, forage, and depredation.
- plunder, booty
- destruction, devastation, corruption, ruin
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
From populus (“people”).
Noun
populātiō f (genitive populātiōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) population; a people, multitude
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “populatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “populatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- populatio 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)
- populatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- populatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016