# demos
## English
### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈdiːmɒs/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈdiˌmɑs/, /ˈdiˌmɔs/

#### Noun

demos (plural demoses or demoi)
* (originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica (δῆμος); (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. [from 18th c.]
* (political science, singular or plural) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people. [from 18th c.]
** 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 323:When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.

### Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

#### Noun

demos
* plural of demo

### Anagrams

* desmo-, modes, Mode S, Domes, domes, desmo

## Galician
### Noun

demos
* plural of demo

### Verb

demos
* first-person plural preterite indicative of dar
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
** first-person plural preterite indicative
** first-person plural present subjunctive
** first-person plural imperative

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “[the common] people”).

### Pronunciation

* dēmos: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdeː.mos/, [ˈd̪eːmɔs̠]
* dēmos: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈde.mos/, [ˈd̪ɛːmos]
* dēmōs: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdeː.moːs/, [ˈd̪eːmoːs̠]
* dēmōs: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈde.mos/, [ˈd̪ɛːmos]

### Noun

dēmos m (genitive dēmī); second declension
* a tract of land, a demos, a deme
* the inhabitants of a dēmos: people, especially the common people
** AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30:
    pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter.
       In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ― translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | dēmos | dēmī |
| Genitive | dēmī | dēmōrum |
| Dative | dēmō | dēmīs |
| Accusative | dēmon | dēmōs |
| Ablative | dēmō | dēmīs |
| Vocative | dēme | dēmī |

#### Synonyms

* (tract of land): pāgus (Pure Latin)
* (inhabitants of a demos):
** (people): populus
** (common people): vulgus

#### Related terms

* dēmocratia (Mediaeval Latin)

### Noun

dēmōs m
* accusative plural of dēmos

### References

* “dēmos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* dēmŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 494/3.
    Lists both senses.
    Lists only the “people” sense.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation 1

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdẽ.mus/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdẽ.mus/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈdẽ.muʃ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈde.mos/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdɛ.muʃ/
* Hyphenation: de‧mos

#### Verb

demos
* first-person plural preterite indicative of dar

### Pronunciation 2

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdẽ.mus/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdẽ.mus/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈdẽ.muʃ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈde.mos/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈde.muʃ/
* Hyphenation: de‧mos

#### Noun

demos
* plural of demo

#### Verb

demos
* inflection of dar:
** first-person plural present subjunctive
** first-person plural imperative

##### Alternative forms

* dêmos

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Greek [script needed] (demos).

### Noun

demos n (uncountable)
* demos

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdemos/ [ˈd̪e.mos]
* Rhymes: -emos
* Syllabification: de‧mos

### Noun

demos m pl
* plural of demo

### Verb

demos
* inflection of dar:
** first-person plural present subjunctive
** first-person plural imperative