populor

Latin

Etymology

From populus (“human, community, people”). According to De Vaan, the meaning developed from an earlier sense "to have an army pass through".[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

populor (present infinitive populārī, perfect active populātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. to lay waste, ravage or devastate, destroy or ruin
    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. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.11:
      Helvetii iam per angustias et fines Sequanorum suas copias traduxerant et in Haeduorum fines pervenerant eorumque agros populabantur.
      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, and were ravaging their lands.
  2. to plunder or pillage
    Synonyms: dīripiō, dēpraedor, praedor, expugnō, trahō, agō

Conjugation
   Conjugation of populor (first conjugation, deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present populor populāris,
populāre		 populātur populāmur populāminī populantur
imperfect populābar populābāris,
populābāre		 populābātur populābāmur populābāminī populābantur
future populābor populāberis,
populābere		 populābitur populābimur populābiminī populābuntur
perfect populātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect populātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect populātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present populer populēris,
populēre		 populētur populēmur populēminī populentur
imperfect populārer populārēris,
populārēre		 populārētur populārēmur populārēminī populārentur
perfect populātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect populātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — populāre — — populāminī —
future — populātor populātor — — populantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives populārī populātum esse populātūrum esse — — —
participles populāns populātus populātūrus — — populandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
populandī populandō populandum populandō populātum populātū

Derived terms

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “populus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 480
  • “populor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “populor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • populor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) democracy: imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
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