population
common noun
Syllable Decomposition
populationThe Latin word 'populatio' originally meant 'depopulation', being derived from 'populari' ('to depopulate'), itself from 'populus' ('people'). In the Middle Ages, the Latin equivalent of 'to populate' took on the sense of 'to furnish with inhabitants, to people', and 'populatio' followed suit. It initially had the active sense of 'peopling, populating'; in the mid-eighteenth century, it took on the collective sense of 'the body of inhabitants (of a country, etc.).'
Definitions
- biologie
- mathématiques
Synonyms
Plural
populations
Translations
german:Bevölkerung
english:population
arabic:سكان
danish:befolkning
spanish:población
greek:πληθυσμός
italian:populazione
dutch:zielental
polish:ludność
portuguese:população
russian:население
swedish:befolkning
See also
peuplière (cn.) vulgarisé (adj.) vulgarisatrice (cn.) peuple (cn.) vulgaire (adj.) vulgaire (cn.) dépeuplement (cn.) dépeupler (v.) dépopulariser (v.) plébain (cn.) impopulaire (adj.) impopularité (cn.) peuplement (cn.) peupler (v.) peuplier (cn.) plèbe (cn.) plébéien (cn.) plébéien (adj.) populaire (adj.) populaire (cn.)