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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.
1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.
Latin
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 (“I roll, turn over”) for the same or a similar root.
Some have attempted, without success, to link it to Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go-, whence English folk.
Pronunciation
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, usually nominative/accusative/vocative in -us.
Second declension neuter, nominative/accusative/vocative in -us. Also rarely encountered as a regular masculine second declension noun.
There is also the heteroclitic ablative singular vulgū.
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References
- “vulgus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulgus 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)
- vulgus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
- to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
- a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus