Etymology

populist

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Today it means: A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen). Full definition →

Latin populus ← Old Latin populus ← Proto-Italic *poplos
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  1. Proto-Italic*poplos
  2. Old Latinpopulus
  3. Latinpopulus
  4. English todaypopulist

From Latin populus + English -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.