adjectivethird-declension two-termination adjective
populāris1
populāris (neuter populāre, adverb populāriter)
Classical[pɔ.pʊˈɫaː.rɪs]Ecclesiastical[po.puˈlaː.ris]
Meaning
- two terminationpopular (by, of or for the people)
- raretwo terminationof the same people or country
- raretwo terminationnative, indigenous
- two terminationagreeable to the people; popular
Populare nunc nihil tam est quam odium popularium.
Right now nothing is as popular as hatred of the populares.59 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 2.20 - two terminationsuitable for or in the manner of the common people; vulgar, coarse, common
- two terminationdedicated or belonging to the people, as opposed to the nobility
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quī ex eōdem populō estpopulāris -is (m/f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 13
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Vastare · Populari · Diripere · Agere ferre · Expilare · Spoliare · Peculari
1. Vastare (from ustus?) means to lay waste, from rage or from policy to destroy the property of an enemy, like πέρθειν, πορθεῖν; whereas populari, diripere, and agere ferre, to plunder for one’s own use; populari, on a great scale, for example, to lay waste all the crops, and drive off the herds; diripere, on a small scale, to break into the houses, and break open the closets; agere ferre includes both meanings, like ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν. 2. Spoliare and populari mean to plunder, in a state of open warfare; whereas expilare and peculari, depeculari, in a state of peace; expilare (ψιλόω) by open force; peculari (dimin. of πέκω) by fraud, and by secretly purloining the property of the state. Cic. Parad. vi. 1. Si socios spolias, ærarium expilas. (iv. 339.)
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | populāris | populāris | populāre |
| genitive | populāris | populāris | populāris |
| dative | populārī | populārī | populārī |
| accusative | populārem | populārem | populāre |
| ablative | populārī | populārī | populārī |
| vocative | populāris | populāris | populāre |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | populārēs | populārēs | populāria |
| genitive | populārium | populārium | populārium |
| dative | populāribus | populāribus | populāribus |
| accusative | populārīs populārēs | populārīs populārēs | populāria |
| ablative | populāribus | populāribus | populāribus |
| vocative | populārēs | populārēs | populāria |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- homo popularis
- a democrat.
- artes populares
- tricks of a demagogue.
- populariter agere
- to play the demagogue.
- offensio populi, popularis
- unpopularity.
- populi favor, gratia popularis
- popular favour; popularity.
- iactatio, concitatio popularis
- popular agitation.
- aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
- popular favour; popularity.
- homo florens in populari ratione
- a democratic leader.
9 more phrases
- aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
- a popular man.
- aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
- popular favour; popularity.
- auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
- to court popularity.
- homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9)
- a man who genuinely wishes the people's good.
- causam popularem suscipere or defendere
- to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles.
- ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
- to strive to gain popular favour by certain means.
- ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
- to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular.
- ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid
- to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence.
- imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
- democracy.
pŏpŭlāris (sync. poplāris, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36), e, adj. 1. populus,
I. of or belonging to the people, proceeding from or designed for the people.
I. In gen.:
populares leges, i. e. laws instituted by the people, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9: accessus, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25: coetus, id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: munus, a donation to the people, id. Off. 2, 16, 56: popularia verba usitata, id. ib. 2, 10, 35; cf.: ad usum popularem atque civilem disserere, id. Leg. 3, 6, 14: dictio ad vulgarem popularemque sensum accommodata, id. de Or. 1, 23, 108: oratio philosophorum ... nec sententiis nec verbis instructa popularibus, id. Or. 19, 64: popularis oratio, id. ib. 44, 151: populari nomine aliquid appellare, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 48: laudes, in the mouths of the people, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 6: admiratio, id. Fam. 7, 1, 2: honor, Cic. Dom. 18: ventus, popular favor, id. Clu. 47, 130 init.: aura, Hor. C. 3, 2, 20: civitas, democracy, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 200 (opp. regia civitas, monarchy): popularia sacra sunt, ut ait Labeo, quae omnes cives faciunt nec certis familiis attributa sunt, Fest. p.253 Müll.—B. Subst.: pŏpŭlārĭa, ĭum, n. (sc. subsellia), the seats of the people in the theatre, the common seats, Suet. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 4 fin.—
II. In partic.
A. Of or belonging to the same people or country, native, indigenous (as an adj. rare):
Sappho puellis de popularibus querentem vidimus, Hor. C. 2, 13, 25: flumina, of the same district, Ov. M. 1, 577: oliva, native, id. ib. 7, 498.—2. As subst.: pŏpŭlāris, is, comm. (freq. and class.).
(a). Masc., a countryman, fellow-countryman:
redire ad suos populares, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. stuprum, p. 317 Müll.: o mi popularis, salve, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 79: o populares, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 1; id. Ad. 2, 1, 1: popularis ac sodalis suus, Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118: ego vero Solonis, popularis tui, ut puto, etiam mei, legem neglegam (for Cicero had also lived in Athens), id. Att. 10, 1, 2: popularis alicujus definiti loci (opp. civis totius mundi), id. Leg. 1, 23, 61: non populares modo, Liv. 29, 1: cum turbā popularium, Just. 43, 1, 6: quae res indicabat populares esse.—(b). Fem.:
mea popularis opsecro haec est? Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 35; 4, 4, 36; 4, 8, 4 al.; Sall. J. 58, 4: tibi popularis, Ov. M. 12, 191.—b. Transf.
(a). Of animals and plants of the same region:
leaena, Ov. lb. 503: (glires) populares ejusdem silvae (opp. alienigenae, amne vel monte discreti), Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224: populares eorum (prunorum) myxae, id. 15, 13, 12, § 43.—(b). Of persons of the same condition, occupation, tastes, etc., a companion, partner, associate, accomplice, comrade: meus popularis Geta, fellow (i. e. a slave), Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 1:
populares conjurationis, Sall. C. 24, 1; 52, 14: sceleris, id. ib. 22, 1: invitis hoc nostris popularibus dicam, the men of our school, i. e. the Stoics, Sen. Vit. Beat. 13.—B. In a political signification, of or belonging to the people, attached or devoted to the people (as opposed to the nobility), popular, democratic:
res publica ex tribus generibus illis, regali et optumati et populari confusa modice, Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 41 (ap. Non. 342, 31): homo maxime popularis, Cic. Clu. 28, 77: consul veritate non ostentatione popularis, id. Agr. 1, 7, 23: animus vere popularis, saluti populi consulens, id. Cat. 4, 5, 9: ingenium, Liv. 2, 24: sacerdos, i. e. Clodius, as attached to the popular party, Cic. Sest. 30, 66: vir, Liv. 6, 20: homo, of the common people (opp. rex), Vulg. Sap. 18, 11. —Hence, subst.: pŏpŭlāres, ĭum, m., the people's party, the democrats (opp. optimates, the aristocrats): duo genera semper in hac civitate fuerunt . . . quibus ex generibus alteri se populares, alteri optimates et haberi et esse voluerunt. Quia ea quae faciebant, multitudini jucunda esse volebant, populares habebantur, Cic. Sest. 45, 96: qui populares habebantur, id. ib. 49, 105: ex quo evenit, ut alii populares, alii studiosi optimi cujusque videantur, id. Off. 1, 25, 85.—C. Acceptable to the people, agreeable to the multitude, popular:
dixi in senatu me popularem consulem futurum. Quid enim est tam populare quam pax? Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 9: potest nihil esse tam populare quam id quod ego consul popularis adfero, pacem, etc., id. ib. 2, 37, 102: quo nihil popularius est, Liv. 7, 33, 3: populare gratumque audientibus, Plin. Paneg. 77, 4.—D. Of or belonging to the citizens (as opposed to the soldiery):
quique rem agunt duelli, quique populare auspicium, Cic. Leg.2, 8; cf.Amm. 14, 10; usually as subst.: popŭlāris, is, m., a citizen (post-class.): multa milia et popularium et militum, Capitol. Ant. Phil. 17; Dig. 1, 12, 1 fin.: popularibus militibusque, Juv. 26, 3, 5; Amm. 22, 2.—E. Belonging to or fit for the common people; hence, common, coarse, mean, bad: sal. Cato, R. R. 88:
pulli (apium), Col. 9, 11, 4: popularia agere, to play coarse tricks, Laber. ap. Non. 150, 25.—Hence, adv.: pŏpŭlārĭter. A. After the manner of the common people, i. e. commonly, coarsely, vulgarly, Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:
loqui, id. Fin. 2, 6, 17: scriptus liber (opp. limatius), id. ib. 5, 5, 12.—B. In a popular manner, popularly, democratically:
agere, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73: conciones seditiose ac populariter excitatae, id. Clu. 34, 93: occidere quemlibet populariter, to win popularity, Juv. 3, 37.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
populāris e, adj. with comp.
1 populus, of the people, proceeding from the people, popular, general, common : leges, instituted by the people : munus, to the people : verba: dictio ad popularem sensum accommodata: oratio: laudes, by the people : ventus, popular favor : aura, H.— Of the same people, of the country, native, indigenous : queri puellis de popularibus, H.: flumina, of the same district , O.: oliva, native , O.: virgo tibi, of thy nation , O.—As subst m., a fellow-countryman, compatriot, associate, fellow, comrade, accomplice : suus: quae res indicabat popularīs esse, his own army , S.: non popularīs modo concitat, L.: populares coniurationis, accomplices , S.— Of the people, devoted to the people, attached to the commons, popular, democratic : genus (rei p.): animus: ingenium, L.: sacerdos, i. e. Clodius.—Acceptable to the people, agreeable to the multitude, popular : consul: quo nihil popularius est, L.—Plur m . as subst, the popular party, democrats .
Origins
- Proto-Italic*poplos
- Old Latinpopulus
- Latinpopulāris
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin populāris From populus + -āris.
Descendants
- Catalanpopular
- Englishpopular
- Frenchpopulaire
- Italianpopolare
- Portuguesepopular
- Romanianpopular
- Spanishpopular
- Turkishpopülerfrom French populaire
- Ladinpopuler
- Sicilianpupulari