demos

See also: Demos and démos

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviated form of demonstration.

Noun

demos

1. plural of demo

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “the people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛmɒs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛmoʊs/

Noun

demos (plural demoi)

1. (political science) The common populace of a state, the people.
2. (modern Greece) municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together
3. (historical, Ancient Greece) the ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state
4. (historical, Ancient Greece) the term for an ancient subdivision of Attica

Anagrams

• desmo, desmo-, domes, modes

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Galician

Verb

demos

1. first-person plural preterite indicative of dar

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “[the common] people”).

Pronunciation

• dēmos: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.mos/, [ˈd̪eːmɔs̠]
• dēmos: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.mos/, [ˈd̪ɛːmos]
• dēmōs: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.moːs/, [ˈd̪eːmoːs̠]
• dēmōs: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.mos/, [ˈd̪ɛːmos]

Noun

dēmos m (genitive dēmī); second declension

1. a tract of land, a demos, a deme
2. the inhabitants of a dēmos: people, especially the common people
   • AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30:

     pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter.

     In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ― translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēmos	dēmī
Genitive	dēmī	dēmōrum
Dative	dēmō	dēmīs
Accusative	dēmon	dēmōs
Ablative	dēmō	dēmīs
Vocative	dēme	dēmī

Synonyms

• (tract of land): pāgus (Pure Latin)
• (inhabitants of a demos):
  • (people): populus
  • (common people): vulgus

Related terms

• dēmocratia (Mediaeval Latin)

Noun

(deprecated template usage) dēmōs m

1. accusative plural of dēmos

References

• “dēmos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dēmŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 494/3.

  Lists both senses.

  Lists only the “people” sense.

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Portuguese

Noun

demos

1. plural of demo

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Spanish

Verb

demos

1. First-person plural (nosotros, nosotras) present subjunctive form of dar.
2. First-person plural (nosotros, nosotras) imperative form of dar.