population

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

population

The 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

groupepeuplehabitant

Plural

populations

Translations

  • germangerman:Bevölkerung
  • englishenglish:population
  • arabicarabic:سكان
  • danishdanish:befolkning
  • spanishspanish:población
  • greekgreek:πληθυσμός
  • italianitalian:populazione
  • dutchdutch:zielental
  • polishpolish:ludność
  • portugueseportuguese:população
  • russianrussian:население
  • swedishswedish: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.)