Frompopulus(“community, people”). According to De Vaan, the meaning developed from an earlier sense "to have an army pass through".[1]
populor (present infinitivepopulārī,perfect activepopulātussum);first conjugation,deponent
- tolay waste,ravage ordevastate,destroy orruin
- Synonyms:ruīnō,dēvāstō,ēvāstō,vāstō,aboleō,occīdō,perdō,dēstruō,exscindō,impellō,accīdō,tollō,dīruō,sepeliō,absūmō,interimō,perimō,trucīdō
- Antonyms:ēmendō,reficiō,reparō,corrigō,medeor
c. 52BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico1.11:
- Helvetii iam per angustias et fines Sequanorum suas copias traduxerant et in Haeduorum fines pervenerant eorumque agrospopulabantur.
- The Helvetii had by this time led their forces over through the narrow defile and the territories of the Sequani, and had arrived at the territories of the Aedui, andwere ravaging their lands.
- toplunder orpillage
- Synonyms:dīripiō,dēpraedor,praedor,expugnō,trahō,agō
1The present passive infinitive in-ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “populus”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page480
- “populor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “populor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “populor”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) democracy:imperium populi orpopulare, civitas orres publica popularis
