Etymology

popster

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Today it means: A pop musician. Full definition →

English pop ← Middle English populer ← Latin populāris
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The story

  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. Englishpop
  12. English todaypopster

From pop + -ster.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.