Etymology

plebicolist

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Today it means: Someone who flatters, or curries favor with the general public; a demagogue. Full definition →

Latin plebs
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromplebs“the common people”
  2. English todayplebicolist

From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + colere (“to cultivate”) + -ist.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.