census

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsəs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or census)

1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
2. Count, tally.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:

     In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...

Translations

official count of members of a population

• Arabic: تَعْدَاد اَلسُّكَّان m (taʕdād as-sukkān), إِحْصَاء اَلسُّكَّان m (ʔiḥṣāʔ as-sukkān)
• Armenian: մարդահամար (hy) (mardahamar)
• Bulgarian: преброяване на населението n (prebrojavane na naselenieto)
• Catalan: cens (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人口普查 (zh) (rénkǒu pǔchá), 戶口檢查／户口检查 (hùkǒu jiǎnchá), 户口检查 (hùkǒu jiǎnchá), 人口調查／人口调查 (zh) (rénkǒu diàochá), 人口调查 (zh) (rénkǒu diàochá)

• Czech: sčítání lidu n
• Danish: folketælling c
• Dutch: volkstelling (nl) f
• Esperanto: censo
• Finnish: väestönlaskenta (fi)
• French: recensement (fr) m
• Galician: censo m, padrón m
• Georgian: აღწერა (ka) (aɣc̣era)
• German: Zensus (de) m, Volkszählung (de) f, Befragung (de) f, Bevölkerungszählung f, Zählung (de) f
• Greek: απογραφή (el) f (apografí)

  Ancient: ἀπογραφή f (apographḗ)

• Hindi: जनगणना (hi) (jangaṇnā)
• Hungarian: népszámlálás (hu)
• Icelandic: manntal (is) n
• Ido: kontado (io), nombrizado (io), kontaduro
• Inuktitut: ᓈᓴᐃᔩᑦ (naasaiyiit)
• Irish: móráireamh m
• Italian: censo (it) m, censimento (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 人口調査 (じんこうちょうさ, jinkō chōsa), 戸籍 (ja) (こせき, koseki)
• Javanese: cacah sirah
• Korean: 인구조사 (ko) (in'gujosa), 국세조사 (guksejosa)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Lithuanian: cenzas m
• Malay: banci (ms)
• Maori: tatauranga, kautetanga
• Navajo: bílaʼashdlaʼii náóltahígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folketelling m or f

  Nynorsk: folketeljing f

• Portuguese: censo (pt) m, recenseamento m
• Russian: пе́репись населе́ния f (pérepisʹ naselénija), пе́репись (ru) f (pérepisʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: cenzus (sh) m
• Spanish: censo (es) m
• Swahili: sensa
• Swedish: folkräkning c
• Tagalog: lahatambilang
• Thai: สำมะโน (th) (sǎm-má-noo)
• Turkish: nüfus sayımı (tr)
• Ukrainian: пере́пис насе́лення m (perépys nasélennja)
• Vietnamese: điều tra dân số
• Welsh: cyfrifiad (cy) m
• Yiddish: צענזוס m (tsenzus)

Verb

1. To collect a census.

Translations

collect a census

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: (het volk) tellen
• Finnish: suorittaa väestönlaskenta
• German: Zensus (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: απογράφω (el) (apográfo)
• Ido: kontar (io), nombrizar (io)
• Italian: censire (it)
• Turkish: nüfus sayımı (tr)

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From cēnseō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛnsus]

Noun

cēnsus m (genitive cēnsūs); fourth declension

1. census, a registering of the populace and their property
2. A register resulting from a census.
3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēnsus	cēnsūs
Genitive	cēnsūs	cēnsuum
Dative	cēnsuī	cēnsibus
Accusative	cēnsum	cēnsūs
Ablative	cēnsū	cēnsibus
Vocative	cēnsus	cēnsūs

Descendants

• Catalan: cens
• English: census
• French: cens
• Galician: censo
• Irish: cíos
• Scottish Gaelic cìs

• Italian: censo
• Portuguese: censo
• Romanian: cens
• Russian: ценз (cenz)
• Spanish: censo

Adjective

cēnsus (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. registered
2. assessed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cēnsus	cēnsa	cēnsum		cēnsī	cēnsae	cēnsa
Genitive	cēnsī	cēnsae	cēnsī		cēnsōrum	cēnsārum	cēnsōrum
Dative	cēnsō		cēnsō		cēnsīs
Accusative	cēnsum	cēnsam	cēnsum		cēnsōs	cēnsās	cēnsa
Ablative	cēnsō	cēnsā	cēnsō		cēnsīs
Vocative	cēnse	cēnsa	cēnsum		cēnsī	cēnsae	cēnsa

References

• “census”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “census”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• census in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the census: censum habere, agere (Liv. 3. 22)
    
  • to strike off the burgess-roll: censu prohibere, excludere
    
• “census”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “census”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin