Etymology

Europop

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Today it means: A style of continental European pop music from the 1970s and 1980s characterized by catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics. Full definition →

English pop ← Middle English populer ← Latin populāris
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The story

  1. EnglishEuro-
  2. Proto-Italic*poplos
  3. Old Latinpopulus
  4. Latinpopulus
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. Latinpopulāri
  8. Old Frenchpopulaire
  9. Latinpopulāris
  10. Middle Englishpopuler
  11. Englishpopularclip.
  12. Englishpop
  13. English todayEuropop

From Euro- + pop.

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