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French
Pronunciation
Noun
populo m (plural populo)
- (slang, derogatory) hoi polloi, commoners, plebs
Further reading
Ido
Etymology
Modified borrowing from Esperanto popolo, Italian popolo, English people, Spanish pueblo and French peuple, from Latin populus, modified to make derived terms resemble internationalism.
Pronunciation
Noun
populo (plural populi)
- people, ethnicity, population
Derived terms
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
populo (plural populos)
- people
Synonyms
See also
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From populus + -ō.
Verb
populō (present infinitive populāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- (transitive) I ravage, devastate, lay waste
- (transitive) I plunder
- (transitive) I despoil, strip
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Noun
populō m
- dative/ablative singular of populus
References
- “populo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “populo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- populo 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) to submit a formal proposition to the people: agere cum populo (Leg. 3. 4. 10)
- (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
- (ambiguous) to rob a people of its freedom: libertatem populo eripere
- (ambiguous) to fail in one's candidature for the consulship: repulsam ferre consulatus (a populo) (Tusc. 5. 19. 54)
Portuguese
Verb
populo
- first-person singular present indicative of popular