# populo
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔ.py.lo/
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### Noun

populo m (plural populo)
* (slang, derogatory) hoi polloi, commoners, plebs

### Further reading

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

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poˈpu.lo/

### Noun

populo (plural populi)
* people, ethnicity, population

#### Derived terms

* despopulizar (“to depopulate”)
* populala
* populano (“resident, inhabitant”)
* populara (“popular”)
* populizar (“to populate”)
* populizo

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpo.pu.lo/

### Noun

populo (plural populos)
* people

#### Synonyms

* gente

#### See also

* persona

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpo.pu.loː/, [ˈpɔpʊɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpo.pu.lo/, [ˈpɔːpulo]

### Etymology 1

From populus +‎ -ō.

#### Verb

populō (present infinitive populāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems
* (transitive) to ravage, devastate, lay waste
* (transitive) to plunder
* (transitive) to despoil, strip

##### Conjugation

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

populō m
* dative/ablative singular of populus

### References

* “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, 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)

## Portuguese
### Verb

populo
* first-person singular present indicative of popular