pop

pop · noun, verb, interjection¹

1. Middle Englishpoppen
2. Middle Englishpop /poppe
3. English todaypop

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

pop · noun²

1. Middle Frenchpapa
2. Frenchpapa
3. Englishpapa
4. Englishpoppa
5. English todaypop

From papa or poppa.

pop · adjective, noun³

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

Clipping of popular.

pop · noun⁴

Clipping of population.

pop · noun⁵

1. Old Church Slavonicпопъ (popŭ)
2. Russianпоп (pop)
3. English todaypop

From colloquial Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Medieval Greek πάπας (pápas) (see pope). Doublet of pope.

Pop · noun⁶

1. Latin · derived frompopīna“cookshop”
2. English todayPop

Uncertain. The OED suggests either from (lolli)pop ("because the meetings were held in the rooms of Mrs Hatton, who kept the lollipop shop"), or from Latin popīna (“cookshop”). The second sense derives from the first.

Pop · noun⁷

Shortened from popular (concert).

Pop · proper noun⁸

From pop (“father”).

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