populatio
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From populor (“lay waste”) + -tiō.
Noun
[edit]populātiō f (genitive populātiōnis); third declension
- the act of laying waste or plundering
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.15:
- Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere.
- Caesar restrained his men from battle, deeming it sufficient for the present to prevent the enemy from rapine, forage, and depredation.
- Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere.
- plunder, booty
- destruction, devastation, corruption, ruin
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | populātiō | populātiōnēs |
| genitive | populātiōnis | populātiōnum |
| dative | populātiōnī | populātiōnibus |
| accusative | populātiōnem | populātiōnēs |
| ablative | populātiōne | populātiōnibus |
| vocative | populātiō | populātiōnēs |
Etymology 2
[edit]From populus (“people”).
Noun
[edit]populātiō f (genitive populātiōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) population; a people, multitude
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | populātiō | populātiōnēs |
| genitive | populātiōnis | populātiōnum |
| dative | populātiōnī | populātiōnibus |
| accusative | populātiōnem | populātiōnēs |
| ablative | populātiōne | populātiōnibus |
| vocative | populātiō | populātiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: población
- Catalan: població
- → English: population
- → French: population
- Galician: poboación
- Italian: popolazione
- Portuguese: povoação, → população
- → Mirandese: pobaçon
- → Romanian: populație
- → Russian: популяция (populjacija)
- Spanish: población
References
[edit]- “populatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “populatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- populatio 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)
- populatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- populatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016