The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromοἱ πολλοί“the many”
- English todayhoi polloi
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οἱ πολλοί (hoi polloí, “the many”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hoi polloi
Today it means: The common people; the masses. (Used with or without the definite article.) Full definition →
Ancient Greek οἱ πολλοί