depopulor Latin · revision 32766

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=itc-pro *poplo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈpɔ.pʊ.ɫɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈpɔː.pu.lor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēpopulor''' (present infinitive dēpopulārī, perfect active dēpopulātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ There is also an active form ''dēpopulō'', ''-āre''.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|populor|t2=to ravage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|populor]] from [[populus]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*poplo-|t=army]]: the sense “to devastate” probably came from letting an army pass through a land; the further origin of the noun is unknown.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Ennius.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to sack, pillage or plunder places: Cicero says Verres plundered the province of Sicily for three years, and Caesar writes of laying waste the territory of Ambiorix.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used also of people and herds, as Livy's raids on neighbours.^(OLD 2012) Transferred and in poetry it is to ravage by grazing, and of natural forces to lay waste;^(OLD 2012) Tacitus has a plague ravaging the whole human race, and in the ''Digest'' it is to rob, as of those who plunder inheritances.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to ravage.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Verres plundering Sicily.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of laying waste territory.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of raids on neighbours.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a plague.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sack]], [[m|en|pillage]], plunder (places, people or herds).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|ravage]], lay waste; of grazing animals, to strip; of disease, to ravage.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To rob, despoil.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēpopulātiō]]

+ * [[dēpopulātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[populor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}