popularis

See also: populáris

Latin

Etymology

populus (“people”) ‎ -āris

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /po.puˈlaː.ris/, [pɔpʊˈɫ̪äːrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.puˈla.ris/, [popuˈläːris]

Adjective

populāris (neuter populāre, adverb populāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. popular (by, of or for the people)
   • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum :

     Populare nunc nihil tam est quam odium popularium.

     Nothing now is as popular as hatred of the popular [politicians].

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	populāris	populāre		populārēs	populāria
genitive	populāris			populārium
dative	populārī			populāribus
accusative	populārem	populāre		populārēs populārīs	populāria
ablative	populārī			populāribus
vocative	populāris	populāre		populārēs	populāria

Descendants

• Catalan: popular
• English: popular
• French: populaire
  • → Turkish: popüler
• Italian: popolare
• Ladin: populer
• Portuguese: popular
• Romanian: popular
• Sicilian: pupulari
• → Spanish: popular
  • → Chavacano: popular

Noun

populāris m or f (genitive populāris); third declension

1. compatriot, comrade

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	populāris	populārēs
genitive	populāris	populārium
dative	populārī	populāribus
accusative	populārem	populārēs populārīs
ablative	populārī	populāribus
vocative	populāris	populārēs

Related terms

• populo

References

• “popularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “popularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• popularis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• popularis 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) 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
    
• popularis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016