Etymology

populace

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Today it means: The common people of a nation. Full definition →

Middle French populace ← Italian popolaccio ← Latin populus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompopulus
  2. Italian · derived frompopolaccio
  3. Middle French · borrowed frompopulace
  4. English todaypopulace

Borrowed from Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio, from popolo + -accio (“pejorative suffix”), from Latin populus.

Words from the same roots

Latinpopulus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.