populo

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

• “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)

1. 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)

1. people

Synonyms

• gente

See also

• persona

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pu.loː/, [ˈpɔpʊɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pu.lo/, [ˈpɔːpulo]

Etymology 1

From populus +‎ -ō.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to ravage, devastate, lay waste
2. (transitive) to plunder
3. (transitive) to despoil, strip

Conjugation

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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		populāre			populārī, populārier1			populāns			—
future		—			—			—			populandus
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		populandī		populandō		populandum		populandō		—		—

   Conjugation of populō (first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems)

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

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