Dictionary formpopulus, populi(masculine)
Translation
people, nation; crowd
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | populus | populi |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | popule | populi |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | populum | populos |
| Genitiveof | populi | populorum |
| Dativeto, for | populo | populis |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | populo | populis |
Examples
Romanus .
The Roman people keep the laws.
populusque Romanus.
The Senate and People of Rome.
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The king gave peace to the people.
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Many peoples live in that land.
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The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Populus, populi is second declension masculine and entirely regular. The singular is collective, the people as one political body, so it takes a singular verb however many humans are involved: populus Romanus vult, not volunt. The plural populi means separate peoples or nations.
Two traps. There is a second populus, populi, this one feminine, meaning "poplar tree" - same spelling, different gender, and the o of the first syllable differs in length. And in Christian Latin populus quietly narrows to the congregation, the laity as against the clergy, which changes the sense of a great many sentences in this corpus. Keep it apart from vulgus, the common crowd with a sneer attached, and from gens, a people defined by descent. Family: popularis, populosus, publicus (from an older poplicus), depopulor. English people, popular, populace, populate; Spanish pueblo, French peuple.
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