puopolo

• IPA^(key): /ˈpwɔ.po.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔpolo
• Hyphenation: può‧po‧lo

puopolo m (plural puopoli) (Old Italian, regional)

1. alternative form of popolo
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Como Iacovo de Saviello senatore fu cacciato de Campituoglio per lo puopolo, e della cavallaria de missore Stefano della Colonna e missore Napolione delli Orsini [How senator Iacopo Savelli was thrown out of the Capitol by the people; and about the cavalry of sir Stefano Colonna and sir Napoleone Orsini]” (chapter 2), in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     sonata la campana, fecero adunare lo puopolo, la moita cavallaria armata e li moiti pedoni (Romanesco)

     having rung the bell, they gathered the people, the vast cavalry, and the many infantrymen