populo

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See also: popolo and popolò

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ.py.lo/
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Noun

populo m (plural populo)

  1. (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)

  1. people, ethnicity, population

Derived terms

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Noun

populo (plural populos)

  1. people

Synonyms

See also

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From populus +‎ .

Verb

populō (present infinitive populāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

  1. (transitive) I ravage, devastate, lay waste
  2. (transitive) I plunder
  3. (transitive) I despoil, strip
Conjugation
   Conjugation of populō (first conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present populō populās populat populāmus populātis populant
imperfect populābam populābās populābat populābāmus populābātis populābant
future populābō populābis populābit populābimus populābitis populābunt
passive present populor populāris,
populāre
populātur populāmur populāminī populantur
imperfect populābar populābāris,
populābāre
populābātur populābāmur populābāminī populābantur
future populābor populāberis,
populābere
populābitur populābimur populābiminī populābuntur
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present populem populēs populet populēmus populētis populent
imperfect populārem populārēs populāret populārēmus populārētis populārent
passive present populer populēris,
populēre
populētur populēmur populēminī populentur
imperfect populārer populārēris,
populārēre
populārētur populārēmur populārēminī populārentur
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present populā populāte
future populātō populātō populātōte populantō
passive present populāre populāminī
future populātor populātor populantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives populāre populārī
participles populāns populandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
populandī populandō populandum populandō

Etymology 2

Noun

populō m

  1. 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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of popular