Etymology

plebification

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Today it means: Making plebeian; vulgarizing. Full definition →

Latin plebs
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The story

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

From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.

Words from the same roots

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