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populus

human community, people

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 15s 1 · 153.85/10k
Phocion 8 · 150.09/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 72 · 105.93/10k
Ab urbe condita, fragments 2 · 95.24/10k
Timotheus 5 · 76.8/10k
De Lege Agraria 98 · 71.11/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 7 · 66.92/10k
De Republica 143 · 65.57/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 83 · 64.17/10k
Didius Julianus 10 · 62.89/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 20s 1 · 60.24/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 86 · 56.8/10k

Densest 12 of 327 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. populus — de Vaan

populus 'human community, people' [m. o] (Naev.+; Carmen Saliare poploe [nom.pl.], poplois [dat.abl.pl.] (apudFest), CIL· ]poplf9populo,poplo,poplus) Derivatives: populan 'to ravage, plunder' (Naev.+), populabundus 'engaged in ravaging a territory' (Sis.+), populdris 'of the people, public' (P1.+), papillaris [mJt] 'fellow citizen, partner' (Naev.+), popularitos 'fellow-citizenship' (PL+), populatim 'universally' … — [de Vaan, s.v. populus, p. 494]

2. populus — de Vaan

populus 'poplar-tree' [f. o] (Cato+) Derivatives: populeus Of a poplar-tree' (Enn.+), pdpulneus 'derived from poplar' (Cato+Xpopulrtus 'id.' (PL). porrum No etymology. The Greek forms Gr. πτελέα, Myc. pte-re-wa 'elm-tree' have *p and */ in common, but if they are cognate at all, no regular correspondence can be discovered. BibL: WH II: 340, EM 522, Leumann 1977: 287. — [de Vaan, s.v. populus, p. 494]

3. pŏpŭlus — Lewis & Short

pŏpŭlus (contr. POPLVS, Inscr. Column. Rostr. in Corp. Inscr. Lat. 195, 17,

Plaut. Am. prol. 101; 1, 1, 103; id. Aul. 2, 4, 6; id. Cas. 3, 2, 6 et saep.—Also written POPOLVS, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 197, 15 al.;

I nom. plur. poploe, Carm. Sal. ap. Fest. p. 205 Müll.; v. pilumnoe) [from root pleof pleo; v. plenus], i, m., a people, the people.

I Lit.

A In gen. (cf.: gens, natio): res publica res populi: populus autem non omnis hominum coetus quoquo modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis juris consensu et utilitatis communione sociatus, Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 39: populus Romanus, id. Phil. 6, 5, 12: exspectabat populus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 90 Vahl.): tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 27: casci populi Latini, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll. (Ann. v. 24 Vahl.): hi populi: Atellani, Calatini, etc., Liv. 22, 61 fin.—

B Esp.

1 The people, opp. to the Senate, in the formula senatus populusque Romanus (abbreviated S. P. Q. R.), saep.; cf.: et patres in populi fore potestate, Liv. 2, 56.—

2 Opp. to the plebs: non enim populi, sed plebis eum (tribunum) magistratum esse, Liv. 2, 56: ut ea res populo plebique Romanae bene eveniret, Cic. Mur. 1, 1.—

3 Rarely for plebs, the populace: dat populus, dat gratus eques, dat tura senatus, Mart. 8, 15, 3: urbanus, the citizens (opp. to the military), Nep. Cim. 2, 1.—

II Transf.

1 A region, district, regarded as inhabited: frequens cultoribus alius populus, Liv. 21, 34, 1 (cf. Gr. dh=mos).—

2 A multitude, host, crowd, throng, great number of persons or things (poet. and in postAug. prose): ratis populo peritura recepto, i. e. with the great multitude of passengers, Luc. 3, 665: fratrum, Ov. H. 14, 115: in tanto populo sileri parricidium potuit, Just. 10, 1: sororum, Ov. H. 9, 52; App. Mag. p. 304: apum, Col. 9, 13, 12: populus totidem imaginum, Plin. 33, 9, 45, § 129; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5: spicarum, Pall. 7, 2: scelerum, Sid. Ep. 6, 1 fin.: concursus in forum populi, Liv. 22, 7, 6.—

3 The public, i. e. the open street (poet.): omnis habet geminas janua frontis, E quibus haec populum spectat; at illa Larem, Ov. F. 1, 136.

4. pōpŭlus — Lewis & Short

pōpŭlus, i, f.root pamp-, pap-, to swell; Lat. papula, papilla, pampinus,

I a poplar, poplar-tree, Plin. 16, 23, 35, § 85; 16, 18, 31, § 77; 17, 11, 15, § 78; Ov. H. 5, 27; sacred to Hercules, Verg. E. 7, 61; Ov. H. 9, 64; Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 3: alba, the silver-poplar, Hor. C. 2, 3, 9.

In the wild

populi Cicero, De Officiis 1.36
populum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.7.7
populum Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.74
populi Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.7.8.p1
populo Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.7.13.p1
populus Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.29.16.7

6 of 8,472 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. populus (scan p. 494; entry #1370). Root candidates: *poplo-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. populus (scan p. 546; entry #8962).

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