populor

Latin

Etymology

From populus (“human, community, people”). According to De Vaan, the meaning developed from an earlier sense "to have an army pass through".^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pu.lor/, [ˈpɔpʊɫ̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pu.lor/, [ˈpɔːpulor]

Verb

populor (present infinitive populārī, perfect active populātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to lay waste, ravage or devastate, destroy or ruin

   Synonyms: ruīnō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, vāstō, aboleō, occīdō, perdō, dēstruō, exscindō, impellō, accīdō, tollō, dīruō, sepeliō, absūmō, interimō, perimō, trucīdō

   Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.11:

     Helvetii iam per angustias et fines Sequanorum suas copias traduxerant et in Haeduorum fines pervenerant eorumque agros populabantur.

     The Helvetii had by this time led their forces over through the narrow defile and the territories of the Sequani, and had arrived at the territories of the Aedui, and were ravaging their lands.

2. to plunder or pillage

   Synonyms: dīripiō, dēpraedor, praedor, expugnō, trahō, agō

Conjugation

Conjugation of populor (first conjugation, deponent)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	populor	populāris, populāre	populātur	populāmur	populāminī	populantur
	imperfect	populābar	populābāris, populābāre	populābātur	populābāmur	populābāminī	populābantur
	future	populābor	populāberis, populābere	populābitur	populābimur	populābiminī	populābuntur
	perfect	populātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	populātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	populātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	populer	populēris, populēre	populētur	populēmur	populēminī	populentur
	imperfect	populārer	populārēris, populārēre	populārētur	populārēmur	populārēminī	populārentur
	perfect	populātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	populātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	populāre	—	—	populāminī	—
	future	—	populātor	populātor	—	—	populantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		populārī	populātum esse	populātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		populāns	populātus	populātūrus	—	—	populandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		populandī	populandō	populandum	populandō	populātum	populātū

Derived terms

• populābundus
• Populōnia

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “populus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 480

• “populor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “populor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “populor”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) democracy: imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis