depopulatio Latin · revision 34638

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=itc-pro *poplo-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēpopulātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dēpopulātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dēpopulor|-tiō|t1=to lay waste]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the verb being a compound of [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|populor|t=to ravage]], from [[m|la|populus#1|t=people; army]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan explains the meaning “to devastate” as coming from “to have an army pass through”, from [[itc-pro|*poplo-|t=army]], a word whose further origin is unknown.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) several times, meaning the laying waste of a country; elsewhere it is rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it in the ''Verrines'', the ''In Pisonem'' and the ''De re publica'', of the Thracians' raids in the ''Pro Fonteio'', and in the plural in the ''Philippics''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(TLL) Livy has it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Augustine speaks of the ravages of the Tiber and of fires,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the Vulgate uses it in Micah.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ In medieval British sources Bede writes of a people freed from the devastation of the pagans, and later chronicles use it of devastation by the Scots.^(DMLBS) In Ecclesiastical Latin it keeps the sense of laying waste and plundering.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the laying waste of a country.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it in Micah.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine writes of the ravages of the Tiber and of fires.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A laying waste, [[m|en|devastation]], [[m|en|plundering]], [[m|en|pillage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[populor]]

+ * [[populus#1]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}