popularis Latin · revision 3925

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Naevius|origins=la populus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [pɔ.pʊˈɫaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [po.puˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''populāris''' (neuter populāre, adverb populāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|populus|-āris|t1=people]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ''populus'' as [[m|itc-pro|*poplo-|t=army]], of uncertain further origin.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus has a syncopated [[m|la|poplāris]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Naevius (c. 235–200 BC).^(Köbler 2010) Plautus mentions a “public dinner”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of or by the whole people, as Cicero's consulship gained by an incredible popular will, and open to the community, public.^(OLD 2012) In politics it meant of the common people as opposed to the senate, and supporting the people's interests, ''populares'' were the party opposed to the ''optimates''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ It meant intended to win the public, and liked by the people, popular, as Cicero's man popular for his very severity.^(OLD 2012) It also meant common, as Cato's ordinary salt, and of one's own country, native, as Horace's girls of Sappho's town.^(OLD 2012) As a noun it meant a fellow citizen.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it meant populous, much visited, lay and of a parish.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''popular'' was borrowed in the early 15th century, first meaning “public, commonly known”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a public dinner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of ordinary salt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the popular will and the popular party.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''popular'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the whole people, [[m|en|popular]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Public, open to all.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of the common people (as opposed to the senate).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of the popular party, [[m|en|democratic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Liked by the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Common, ordinary.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of one's own country, native.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Populous; lay; of a [[m|en|parish]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A fellow citizen, compatriot.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' The popular party.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[populāritās]]

+ * [[populāriter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plēbs]]

+ * [[populor]]

+ * [[populō]]

+ * [[populus]]

+ * [[en|popular]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}