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 stem

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