The story
- Latin · derived frompopulus
- Late Latin · borrowed frompopulatio“a people, multitude”
- English todaypopulation
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinpopulatio all →
poblacion
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.