Fromplebeian +-ate(forms noun denoting rank or office, a body of people involved with it).
plebeiate (plural not attested)
- (rare, Ancient Rome) The class ofplebeians orcommoncitizens.
- Synonym:plebs
- Antonym:patriciate
1870,William Francis Allen, “Review ofThe History of the Norman Conquest of England”, inThe North American Review[1], volume110, number227, page355:Those writers, on the other hand, who take a more aristocratic view of early institutions, and consider the ceorls as an essentially inferior class, would look upon "commendation" as their original and necessary condition. The Romanplebeiate is of course an argument for the latter view.
1901,Abel Greenidge,Roman Public Life[2], pages5–6:In the old life of thepagus and thegens, the weaker sought protection of the stronger by a willing vassalage, which ripened, when the state was formed, into thePlebeiate which had its origin in clientship.
2019, Lewis Webb, “Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia Aemilia”, inEris vs. Aemulatio: Valuing Competition in Classical Antiquity[3], page258:I propose that thisordo was a stratified and competitive hierarchy, a network with multiple interacting and context-specific hierarchies (clan, patriciate,plebeiate, age, sexual status, social position, sacerdotal public office, wealth etc.) […]
