populariter Latin · revision 34362

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la populus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''populāriter''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|populāris|-ter|t1=of the people]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The adjective is formed from [[m|la|populus#1|t=people]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*poplo-|t=army]]; de Vaan calls its further etymology unknown.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says in the ''De re publica'' that people commonly measure the year by the return of the sun alone.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its two classical senses are both Ciceronian: as ordinary people do, especially in everyday rather than technical language (''populariter interdum loqui necesse erit'', “at times one will have to speak in the common way”), and in a manner meant to win popular favour, as when Cicero is accused of playing to the crowd and stirring up ill will by bringing forward a boy.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Arnobius uses it of children brought up in a commonplace way.^(Georges 1913) Medieval British writers used it of something involving a whole population and of what was popularly known among the common people.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of everyday language and of courting popular favour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it of a common upbringing.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 893 – Asser uses it of the Saxons worn down as a whole people in battle.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # As ordinary people do, [[m|en|commonly]]; in everyday language.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # So as to win popular favour, [[m|en|demagogically]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Involving the whole population; [[m|en|popularly]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}