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populus.

people, nation, State; public/populace/multitude/crowd; a following; members of a society/sex; region/district (L+S); army (Bee); poplar tree; (long o);

7 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈpɔ.pʊ.ɫʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈpɔː.pu.lus]
  1. a people, nation

    declension-2 · masculine
  2. a community of people

    declension-2 · masculine
  3. the people, public, crowd, host, multitude

    declension-2 · masculine
  4. a group of people

    Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · masculine
  5. a parish, part of a city

    Medieval-Latin · declension-2 · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Latin populus (since mid-2nd c. BC), from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos (attested already since early 5th c. BC), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), further origin unknown; perhaps from Etruscan or from the root of pleō (Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). See also plēbs, from the root of pleō.

noun[ˈpoː.pʊ.ɫʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈpɔː.pu.lus]
  1. poplar tree

    declension-2
Where this word comes from

Unknown. Compare Ancient Greek πτελέα (pteléa, “elm”), Proto-Slavic *topolь (“poplar”). Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *po-h₂pel-o-, from a root *h₂pel- also found in Ancient Greek ἀπελλόν (apellón), although the initial *po- is left unexplained. It is possible that some or all of these terms were borrowed from the same substrate continuum.

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