vulgus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to throng, crowd”), see also Welsh gwala (“sufficiency, enough”), Middle Breton gwalc'h (“abundance”), Ancient Greek εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), Sanskrit वर्ग (varga, “group, division”), Latin volvō.
Some have attempted, without success, to link it to Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go, whence English folk.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ul.ɡus/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪ɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvul.ɡus/, [ˈvulɡus]
Noun
vulgus n sg or m sg (genitive vulgī); second declension
- (uncountable) the common people
- (uncountable) the public
- throng, crowd
- gathering
Declension
Second declension, usually nominative/accusative/vocative in -us.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | vulgus |
Genitive | vulgī |
Dative | vulgō |
Accusative | vulgus vulgum |
Ablative | vulgō |
Vocative | vulgus vulge |
Second declension neuter, nominative/accusative/vocative in -us. Also rarely encountered as a regular masculine second declension noun.
There is also the heteroclitic ablative singular vulgū.
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References
- “vulgus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulgus 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)
- vulgus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
- to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
- a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
- to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook