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+ ==Forms==
+ '''populātiō''' ''f'' (genitive populātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|populor|-tiō|t1=to lay waste]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Caesar uses it of the ravaging of the land.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Caesar c. 50 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was the action of ravaging a country, a plundering raid, much used by Livy, and Lewis & Short note that it is not in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By metonymy it was plunder or booty, as Livy's soldiers full of spoils.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it meant destruction, ruin or corruption.^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)
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+ In medieval British Latin it was plundering, and also the supplying of a place with inhabitants.^(DMLBS) Niermeyer records the senses of a crowd, of settlement and of a rural colony.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of ravaging.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of plundering raids and booty.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st half of the 5th century AD – Sedulius uses the homograph meaning a people.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1610s – English ''population'' is recorded, from the Late Latin homograph.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Ravaging, plundering, devastation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # Plunder, booty.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Destruction, ruin, corruption.^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Settlement; a rural colony.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[populor]]
+ * [[en|population]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ A Late Latin homograph ''populātiō'', from [[populus]] “people”, meant a people, a multitude, as when Sedulius says the crowd present wept for Lazarus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) English ''population'' comes from this word.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}