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demos

See also: Demos and démos

English

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Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

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Noun

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demos (plural demoses or demoi)

  1. (originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica (δῆμος); (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. [from 18th c.]
  2. (political science, singular or plural) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people. [from 18th c.]
    • 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 323:
      When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.

Etymology 2

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Inflected forms.

Noun

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demos

  1. plural of demo

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Galician

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Noun

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demos

  1. plural of demo

Verb

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demos

  1. first-person plural preterite indicative of dar
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
    1. first-person plural preterite indicative
    2. first-person plural present subjunctive
    3. first-person plural imperative

Latin

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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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

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  • (tract of land): pāgus (Pure Latin)
  • (inhabitants of a demos):
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Noun

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dēmōs m

  1. accusative plural of dēmos

References

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  • “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.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation 1

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  • Hyphenation: de‧mos

Verb

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demos

  1. first-person plural preterite indicative of dar

Pronunciation 2

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  • Hyphenation: de‧mos

Noun

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demos

  1. plural of demo

Verb

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demos

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. first-person plural present subjunctive
    2. first-person plural imperative
Alternative forms
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Greek [script needed] (demos).

Noun

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demos n (uncountable)

  1. demos

Declension

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declension of demos (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) demos demosul
genitive/dative (unui) demos demosului
vocative demosule

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdemos/ [ˈd̪e.mos]
  • Rhymes: -emos
  • Syllabification: de‧mos

Noun

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demos m pl

  1. plural of demo

Verb

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demos

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. first-person plural present subjunctive
    2. first-person plural imperative
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