populus1
Meaning
- masculinea people, nation
Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
That the friendship of the Roman people ought to prove to him an ornament and a safeguard, not a detriment; and that he sought it with that expectation.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.44 - masculinea community of people
Ea tum cura maxime intentos habebat Romanos, non ab ira tantum, quae in nullam unquam ciuitatem iustior fuit, quam quod urbs tam nobilis ac potens, sicut defectione sua traxerat aliquot populos, ita recepta inclinatura rursus animos uidebatur ad ueteris imperii respectum.
This concern in particular troubled the mindful Romans at the time, not so much because of anger, which has never been more justified against any other city, rather because a city so noble and powerful, in the same way that it had attracted the support of a number of communities by its revolt, was thought would again turn attention back towards respect for the previous government once recaptured.27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 26.1 - masculinethe people, public, crowd, host, multitude
ā populō clāmor ad astra venit
A shout from the people reaches the stars8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.374 - Medieval Latinmasculinea group of people
- Medieval Latinmasculinea parish, part of a city
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
omnēs cīvēs ūnā; populus Rōmānus.arbor alta rīpārum (ō longā!)Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Gens · Natio · Populus · Civitas
1. Gens and natio denote a people, in a physical sense, in the description of nations, as a society originating in common descent and relationship, without any apparent reference to civilization; whereas populus and civitas denote a people in a political sense, as a society formed by civilization and compact. Sall. Cat. 10, 1. Nationes feræ et populi ingentes subacti. Cic. Rep. i. 25. 2. Gens (γενετή) includes all people of the same descent, like φῦλον; natio (from γνήσιος) a single colony of the same, like ἔθνος. Vell. P. ii. 98. Omnibus ejus gentis nationibus in arma accensis. Tac. G. 2, 38. But as gens, in this physical sense, as the complex term for several colonies, has a more comprehensive meaning than natio, so has it, at the same time, in its political accessory meaning, as a clan, γένος, or as the complex term for several families, a narrower meaning than populus; hence sometimes populus forms, as a civilized natio, a part of the natural gens. Liv. iv. 49. Bolanis suæ gentis populo, and Virg. A. x. 202; sometimes gens, as a political society, forms a part of populus: Justin. vii. 1. Adunatis gentibus variorum populorum. 3. Civitas (from κείω) denotes the citizens of a town collectively, πόλις, merely with regard to their interior connection, as including the inhabitants who are in the enjoyment of the full rights of citizenship, and the lawful possessors of the land; populus (redupl. of πόλις) means the people, δῆμος, more commonly in reference to their social relations, interior and exterior, and with the included notion of belonging to the state. A people can determine upon war as a civitas; but can carry it on only as a populus. A civitas is necessarily stationary; but a populus may consist of Nomades, or wanderers from one pasture to another.
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | populus | populī |
| genitive | populī | populōrum |
| dative | populō | populīs |
| accusative | populum | populōs |
| ablative | populō | populīs |
| vocative | popule | populī |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- populi causam agere
- to be a leading spirit of the popular cause.
- offensa populi voluntas
- unpopularity.
- gratiam populi quaerere
- to court popularity.
- censores censent populum
- the censors hold a census of the people.
- libertatem populo eripere
- to rob a people of its freedom.
- offensio populi, popularis
- unpopularity.
- existimatio populi, hominum
- public opinion.
- populum perdomare, subigere
- to subjugate a nation.
23 more phrases
- Asia populi Romani facta est
- Asia was made subject to Rome.
- res populi Romani perscribere
- to write a history of Rome.
- populum facilem, aequum habere
- to have an appreciative audience.
- faex populi, plebis, civitatis
- the dregs of the people.
- populi favor, gratia popularis
- popular favour; popularity.
- populum in deditionem accipere
- to accept the submission of a people.
- a senatu res ad populum reicitur
- a matter is referred (for decision) from the senate to the people.
- agere cum populo (Leg. 3. 4. 10)
- to submit a formal proposition to the people.
- libera res publica, liber populus
- the Republic.
- provocare ad populum (Liv. 2. 55)
- to appeal to the people.
- liberum populum servitute afficere
- to enslave a free people.
- populum in deditionem venire cogere
- to reduce a country to subjection to oneself.
- verba facere apud populum, in contione
- to address a meeting of the people.
- in amicitia populi Romani esse (Liv. 22. 37)
- to be on friendly terms with the Roman people.
- legem ferre or simply ferre ad populum, ut...
- to propose a law in the popular assembly.
- populum in potestatem suam redigere (B. G. 2. 34)
- to reduce a country to subjection to oneself.
- pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
- the plague breaks out in the city.
- convocare populi concilium and populum ad concilium
- to summon an assembly of the people.
- repulsam ferre consulatus (a populo) (Tusc. 5. 19. 54)
- to fail in one's candidature for the consulship.
- populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
- to grant a people its independence.
- imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
- democracy.
- legem rogare or rogare populum (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note Aulus Gellius...)
- to formally propose a law to the people.
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.—et patres in populi fore potestate, Liv. 2, 56.—non enim populi, sed plebis eum (tribunum) magistratum esse, Liv. 2, 56: ut ea res populo plebique Romanae bene eveniret, Cic. Mur. 1, 1.— dat populus, dat gratus eques, dat tura senatus, Mart. 8, 15, 3: urbanus, the citizens (opp. to the military), Nep. Cim. 2, 1.—frequens cultoribus alius populus, Liv. 21, 34, 1 (cf. Gr. δῆμος).—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.—at illa Larem, Ov. F. 1, 136.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From Old Latin populus (since mid-2nd c. BC), from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos (attested already since early 5th c. BC), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), further origin unknown; perhaps from Etruscan or from the root of pleō (Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). See also plēbs, from the root of pleō.
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