popularis

From populus (“the people”) +‎ -āris.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔ.pʊˈɫaː.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.puˈlaː.ris]

populāris (neuter populāre, adverb populāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. popular (by, of or for the people)
2. (rare) of the same people or country
3. (rare) native, indigenous
4. agreeable to the people; popular
   • 59 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 2.20:

     Populare nunc nihil tam est quam odium popularium.

     Right now nothing is as popular as hatred of the populares.

5. suitable for or in the manner of the common people; vulgar, coarse, common
6. (politics) dedicated or belonging to the people, as opposed to the nobility

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

populāris m or f (genitive populāris); third declension (nominalized)

1. a compatriot, comrade
2. (in the plural) a politician in the camp of the populares, opposed to the optimates

   Antonym: optimās

   • 59 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 2.20:

     Populare nunc nihil tam est quam odium popularium.

     Right now nothing is as popular as hatred of the populares.

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

• “popularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “popularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "popularis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “popularis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence: ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: populi favor, gratia popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
    
  • (ambiguous) to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
    
  • (ambiguous) a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
    
  • (ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensio populi, popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) a democrat: homo popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) a man who genuinely wishes the people's good: homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9)
    
  • (ambiguous) a democratic leader: homo florens in populari ratione
    
  • (ambiguous) democracy: imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) to take up the cause of the people, democratic principles: causam popularem suscipere or defendere
    
  • (ambiguous) popular agitation: iactatio, concitatio popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) tricks of a demagogue: artes populares
    
• popularis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016