populo

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.py.lo/

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populo m (plural populo)

1. (slang, derogatory) hoi polloi, commoners, plebs

• “populo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Modified borrowing from Esperanto popolo, Italian popolo, English people, Spanish pueblo and French peuple, from Latin populus, modified to make derived terms resemble internationalism.

• IPA^(key): /poˈpu.lo/

populo (plural populi)

1. people, ethnicity, population

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.pu.lo/

populo (plural populos)

1. people

• gente

• persona

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.pʊ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.pu.lo]

From populus +‎ -ō.

populō (present infinitive populāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. (transitive) to ravage, devastate, lay waste
2. (transitive) to plunder
3. (transitive) to despoil, strip

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

populō m

1. dative/ablative singular of populus

• “populo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “populo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• populo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence: ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to submit a formal proposition to the people: agere cum populo (Leg. 3. 4. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: populi favor, gratia popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
    
  • (ambiguous) to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
    
  • (ambiguous) a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
    
  • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensio populi, popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) a democrat: homo popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) a man who genuinely wishes the people's good: homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9)
    
  • (ambiguous) a democratic leader: homo florens in populari ratione
    
  • (ambiguous) democracy: imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles: causam popularem suscipere or defendere
    
  • (ambiguous) popular agitation: iactatio, concitatio popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) tricks of a demagogue: artes populares
    
  • (ambiguous) to rob a people of its freedom: libertatem populo eripere
    
  • (ambiguous) to fail in one's candidature for the consulship: repulsam ferre consulatus (a populo) (Tusc. 5. 19. 54)
    

populo

1. first-person singular present indicative of popular