populo
See also: popolo and popolò
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.py.lo/
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Noun
populo m (plural populo)
- (slang, derogatory) hoi polloi, commoners, plebs
Further reading
- “populo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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
- IPA(key): /poˈpu.lo/
Noun
populo (plural populi)
- people, ethnicity, population
Derived terms
- despopulizar (“to depopulate”)
- populala
- populano (“resident, inhabitant”)
- populara (“popular”)
- populizar (“to populate”)
- populizo
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpo.pu.lo/
Noun
populo (plural populos)
- people
Synonyms
- gente
See also
- persona
Latin
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)
- (ambiguous) to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence: ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid