vulgo
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vulgo (not comparable)
- In the vernacular; commonly known as.
- 1733, Philip Miller, “PERICLYMENUM”, in The Gardeners Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, column 1:
- PERICLYMENUM; […] Trumpet Honeyſuckle; vulgô.
- 1822, George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands, 264-265:
- [Pope's Hole] derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo "popes".
- 1828, John Walters, An English and Welsh Dictionary, page 304:
- A cow desiring the bull [vulgò a tufty cow]
Noun edit
vulgo (uncountable)
- The masses.
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Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vulgus. Compare Portuguese vulgo.
Noun edit
vulgo m (plural vulgos)
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vulgo
- vulgo; commonly known as
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Latin edit
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Etymology edit
From vulgus (“the public, the common people”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ul.ɡoː/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvul.ɡo/, [ˈvulɡo]
Verb edit
vulgō (present infinitive vulgāre, perfect active vulgāvī, supine vulgātum); first conjugation
- to broadcast, publish, divulge, issue, make known among the people
- to make common, prostitute
- to make known to all by words, spread abroad, publish, divulge
- to cheapen, degrade
- Synonym: dēgenerō
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vulgō (not comparable)
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vulgō
References edit
- “vulgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulgo 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)
- vulgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- every one says: vulgo dicitur, pervulgatum est
- to express oneself in popular language: ad vulgarem sensum or ad communem opinionem orationem accommodare (Off. 2. 10. 35)
- every one says: vulgo dicitur, pervulgatum est
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vulgus (“the common people”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel (“to throng, crowd”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: vul‧go
Noun edit
vulgo m (plural vulgos)
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vulgo (not comparable)
- (formal) introduces a colloquial synonym, or a nickname; vulgarly/colloquially/informally/commonly known as
- Ele sofre de tireomegalia, vulgo papeira.
- He suffers from thyromegaly, commonly known as goitre.
- René Higuita, vulgo O Escorpião, foi um goleiro colombiano.
- René Higuita, nicknamed The Scorpion, was a Colombian goalkeeper.
Spanish edit
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vulgo m (plural vulgos)
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vulgo
Further reading edit
- “vulgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From vulgär. Possibly by analogy with other Swedish slang terms (like fetto, lyllo, svullo), possibly influenced by English vulgo. Attested (as part of compounds) since 1988.
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vulgo