"plebs" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /pleːbs/ [Classical-Latin], [pɫ̪eːps̠] [Classical-Latin], /plebs/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [plɛbs] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Old Latin plēbēs, from Proto-Italic *plēðwēs (whence Oscan 𐌐𐌋𐌝𐌚𐌓𐌉𐌊𐌔 (plífriks, “plebeian”, nom. sg.) via *plēðros), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és (whence Ancient Greek πληθῡ́ς (plēthū́s, “crowd”)) from *pleh₁- (“fill”), whence pleō. See also populus. Etymology templates: {{der|la|itc-ola|plēbēs}} Old Latin plēbēs, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*plēðwēs}} Proto-Italic *plēðwēs, {{inh|la|ine-pro|*pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₂s|*pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és}} Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és Head templates: {{la-noun|((plēbs<3.I>,plēbs<3>))|footnote=The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.|g=f}} plēbs f (genitive plēbis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|((plēbs<3.I>,plēbs<3>))|footnote=The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.|nom_sg=plēbs/plēbēs|voc_sg=plēbs/plēbēs}} Forms: plēbs [canonical, feminine], plēbis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], plēbs [nominative, singular], plēbēs [nominative, singular], plēbēs [nominative, plural], plēbis [genitive, singular], plēbium [genitive, plural], plēbum [genitive, plural], plēbī [dative, singular], plēbibus [dative, plural], plēbem [accusative, singular], plēbēs [accusative, plural], plēbīs [accusative, plural], plēbe [ablative, singular], plēbibus [ablative, plural], plēbs [singular, vocative], plēbēs [singular, vocative], plēbēs [plural, vocative]
  1. (uncountable) plebeians, plebs, common people Tags: declension-3, uncountable
    Sense id: en-plebs-la-noun-Nxxi7QW4
  2. (countable and uncountable) populace, population, stock Tags: countable, declension-3, uncountable
    Sense id: en-plebs-la-noun-7z5HAPTb
  3. (Late Latin, countable and uncountable, Christianity) laity, congregation, parish Tags: Late-Latin, countable, declension-3, uncountable Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-plebs-la-noun-CyVysM4w Categories (other): Late Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 38 1 61 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 18 58 Topics: Christianity
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: plēbēs, plēbis [archaic] Derived forms: plēbēcula, plēbicula, plēbēius, plēbicola, plēbiscītum, plēbitās, concilium plēbis, tribūnus plēbis
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plēbēcula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": " plēbicula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plēbēius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plēbicola"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plēbiscītum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plēbitās"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "concilium plēbis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tribūnus plēbis"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "egl",
            "2": "pev"
          },
          "expansion": "Emilian: pev",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Emilian: pev"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "plef",
            "3": "plêv"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: plef, plêv",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: plef, plêv"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "pieve"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: pieve",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: pieve"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "plief",
            "3": "plieu",
            "4": "pieue",
            "5": "plié"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: plief, plieu, pieue, plié",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: plief, plieu, pieue, plié"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lij",
            "2": "chieve"
          },
          "expansion": "Ligurian: chieve",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ligurian: chieve"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "pleu"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Occitan: pleu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Occitan: pleu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "piev"
          },
          "expansion": "Piedmontese: piev",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Piedmontese: piev"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "plaif",
            "3": "plaiv"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: plaif, plaiv",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: plaif, plaiv"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "piove"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: piove",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: piove"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "plevan"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: plevan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: plevan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "piovano"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: piovano",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: piovano"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "pluvan",
            "3": "ploan"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: pluvan, ploan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: pluvan, ploan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "piovan"
          },
          "expansion": "Piedmontese: piovan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Piedmontese: piovan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "plevon",
            "3": "plavan"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: plevon, plavan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: plevon, plavan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "plavan"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: plavan",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Muggia"
          },
          "expansion": "(Muggia)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: plavan (Muggia)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro",
            "2": "*pluɨβ",
            "bor": "1",
            "qq": "from the plural"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *pluɨβ (from the plural)\nBreton: ploue\nCornish: pluw\nMiddle Welsh: plwyf\nWelsh: plwyf",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *pluɨβ (from the plural)\nBreton: ploue\nCornish: pluw\nMiddle Welsh: plwyf\nWelsh: plwyf"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "plebs",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: plebs",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: plebs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "plebs",
            "3": "pleb",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: plebs, pleb",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: plebs, pleb"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "plèbe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: plèbe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: plèbe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: plebe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "πληβείος",
            "3": "πληβεία",
            "bor": "1",
            "g2": "f"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Greek: πληβείος (pliveíos), πληβεία f (pliveía)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Greek: πληβείος (pliveíos), πληβεία f (pliveía)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "plebbi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Icelandic: plebbi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Icelandic: plebbi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: plebe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "plebs",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: plebs",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: plebs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: plebe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: plebe"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-ola",
        "3": "plēbēs"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Latin plēbēs",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*plēðwēs"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *plēðwēs",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₂s",
        "4": "*pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Latin plēbēs, from Proto-Italic *plēðwēs (whence Oscan 𐌐𐌋𐌝𐌚𐌓𐌉𐌊𐌔 (plífriks, “plebeian”, nom. sg.) via *plēðros), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és (whence Ancient Greek πληθῡ́ς (plēthū́s, “crowd”)) from *pleh₁- (“fill”), whence pleō. See also populus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plēbs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "((plēbs<3.I>,plēbs<3>))",
        "footnote": "The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "plēbs f (genitive plēbis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "((plēbs<3.I>,plēbs<3>))",
        "footnote": "The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.",
        "nom_sg": "plēbs/plēbēs",
        "voc_sg": "plēbs/plēbēs"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"circum fremunt': Some in this place understand that they 'grumble' that is, protest commands, as Cassius in the second book of Annals: \"lest anyone seize power, if the plebs started to 'grumble' our commands\", that is, to protest.",
          "ref": "4th-5th century AD [2nd century BC], Servius, quoting Cassius Hemina, Annals, quoted in In Vergilii Aeneidos Libros:",
          "text": "'circum fremunt': quidam hoc loco 'fremunt' id est imperia recusant intellegunt, ut apud Cassium in annalium secundo “ne quis regnum occuparet, si plebs nostra fremere imperia coepisset” , id est recusare.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plebeians, plebs, common people"
      ],
      "id": "en-plebs-la-noun-Nxxi7QW4",
      "links": [
        [
          "plebeian",
          "plebeian"
        ],
        [
          "plebs",
          "plebs#English"
        ],
        [
          "common",
          "common"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) plebeians, plebs, common people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "1954 translation by E. S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner\nBut if the combs have produced no offspring, it will be open to you to bring together the population of two or three hives into one, but only after they have been sprinkled with sweet liquid",
          "ref": "4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 9.11",
          "text": "Quod si nullam progeniem tulerint favi, duas vel tres alv(e)orum plebes in unam contribuere licebit, sed prius respersas dulci liquore"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "populace, population, stock"
      ],
      "id": "en-plebs-la-noun-7z5HAPTb",
      "links": [
        [
          "populace",
          "populace"
        ],
        [
          "population",
          "population"
        ],
        [
          "stock",
          "stock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable and uncountable) populace, population, stock"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "declension-3",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Late Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Christianity",
          "orig": "la:Christianity",
          "parents": [
            "Abrahamism",
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 1 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 18 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "or if you prefer the discussion to be carried out by letters, let them be read to the congregations, so that at length they may be called not \"congregations\", but one congregation.",
          "ref": "396 CE, Augustine of Hippo, Letters 33.4",
          "text": "aut si per epistolas agi placet, ipsae plebibus recitentur, ut aliquando non plebes, sed plebs una dicatur."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laity, congregation, parish"
      ],
      "id": "en-plebs-la-noun-CyVysM4w",
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "laity",
          "laity"
        ],
        [
          "congregation",
          "congregation"
        ],
        [
          "parish",
          "parish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Late Latin, countable and uncountable, Christianity) laity, congregation, parish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Latin",
        "countable",
        "declension-3",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pleːbs/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pɫ̪eːps̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/plebs/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[plɛbs]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plēbēs"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "plēbis"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plebs"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 1-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Old Latin",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "pl:Collectives"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "plēbēcula"
    },
    {
      "word": " plēbicula"
    },
    {
      "word": "plēbēius"
    },
    {
      "word": "plēbicola"
    },
    {
      "word": "plēbiscītum"
    },
    {
      "word": "plēbitās"
    },
    {
      "word": "concilium plēbis"
    },
    {
      "word": "tribūnus plēbis"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "egl",
            "2": "pev"
          },
          "expansion": "Emilian: pev",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Emilian: pev"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "plef",
            "3": "plêv"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: plef, plêv",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: plef, plêv"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "pieve"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: pieve",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: pieve"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "plief",
            "3": "plieu",
            "4": "pieue",
            "5": "plié"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: plief, plieu, pieue, plié",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: plief, plieu, pieue, plié"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lij",
            "2": "chieve"
          },
          "expansion": "Ligurian: chieve",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ligurian: chieve"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "pleu"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Occitan: pleu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Occitan: pleu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "piev"
          },
          "expansion": "Piedmontese: piev",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Piedmontese: piev"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "plaif",
            "3": "plaiv"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: plaif, plaiv",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: plaif, plaiv"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "piove"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: piove",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: piove"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "plevan"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: plevan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: plevan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "piovano"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: piovano",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: piovano"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "pluvan",
            "3": "ploan"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: pluvan, ploan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: pluvan, ploan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "piovan"
          },
          "expansion": "Piedmontese: piovan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Piedmontese: piovan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "plevon",
            "3": "plavan"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: plevon, plavan",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: plevon, plavan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "plavan"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: plavan",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Muggia"
          },
          "expansion": "(Muggia)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: plavan (Muggia)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro",
            "2": "*pluɨβ",
            "bor": "1",
            "qq": "from the plural"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *pluɨβ (from the plural)\nBreton: ploue\nCornish: pluw\nMiddle Welsh: plwyf\nWelsh: plwyf",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *pluɨβ (from the plural)\nBreton: ploue\nCornish: pluw\nMiddle Welsh: plwyf\nWelsh: plwyf"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "plebs",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: plebs",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: plebs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "plebs",
            "3": "pleb",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: plebs, pleb",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: plebs, pleb"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "plèbe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: plèbe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: plèbe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: plebe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "πληβείος",
            "3": "πληβεία",
            "bor": "1",
            "g2": "f"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Greek: πληβείος (pliveíos), πληβεία f (pliveía)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Greek: πληβείος (pliveíos), πληβεία f (pliveía)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "plebbi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Icelandic: plebbi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Icelandic: plebbi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: plebe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "plebs",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: plebs",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: plebs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: plebe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "plebe",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: plebe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: plebe"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-ola",
        "3": "plēbēs"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Latin plēbēs",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*plēðwēs"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *plēðwēs",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₂s",
        "4": "*pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Latin plēbēs, from Proto-Italic *plēðwēs (whence Oscan 𐌐𐌋𐌝𐌚𐌓𐌉𐌊𐌔 (plífriks, “plebeian”, nom. sg.) via *plēðros), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁dʰwḗh₁s ~ *pl̥h₁dʰuh₁és (whence Ancient Greek πληθῡ́ς (plēthū́s, “crowd”)) from *pleh₁- (“fill”), whence pleō. See also populus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plēbs",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plēbēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "((plēbs<3.I>,plēbs<3>))",
        "footnote": "The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "plēbs f (genitive plēbis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "((plēbs<3.I>,plēbs<3>))",
        "footnote": "The non-i-stem variant is found in Medieval Latin.",
        "nom_sg": "plēbs/plēbēs",
        "voc_sg": "plēbs/plēbēs"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"circum fremunt': Some in this place understand that they 'grumble' that is, protest commands, as Cassius in the second book of Annals: \"lest anyone seize power, if the plebs started to 'grumble' our commands\", that is, to protest.",
          "ref": "4th-5th century AD [2nd century BC], Servius, quoting Cassius Hemina, Annals, quoted in In Vergilii Aeneidos Libros:",
          "text": "'circum fremunt': quidam hoc loco 'fremunt' id est imperia recusant intellegunt, ut apud Cassium in annalium secundo “ne quis regnum occuparet, si plebs nostra fremere imperia coepisset” , id est recusare.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plebeians, plebs, common people"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plebeian",
          "plebeian"
        ],
        [
          "plebs",
          "plebs#English"
        ],
        [
          "common",
          "common"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) plebeians, plebs, common people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin countable nouns",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "1954 translation by E. S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner\nBut if the combs have produced no offspring, it will be open to you to bring together the population of two or three hives into one, but only after they have been sprinkled with sweet liquid",
          "ref": "4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 9.11",
          "text": "Quod si nullam progeniem tulerint favi, duas vel tres alv(e)orum plebes in unam contribuere licebit, sed prius respersas dulci liquore"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "populace, population, stock"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "populace",
          "populace"
        ],
        [
          "population",
          "population"
        ],
        [
          "stock",
          "stock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable and uncountable) populace, population, stock"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "declension-3",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Late Latin",
        "Latin countable nouns",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin uncountable nouns",
        "la:Christianity"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "or if you prefer the discussion to be carried out by letters, let them be read to the congregations, so that at length they may be called not \"congregations\", but one congregation.",
          "ref": "396 CE, Augustine of Hippo, Letters 33.4",
          "text": "aut si per epistolas agi placet, ipsae plebibus recitentur, ut aliquando non plebes, sed plebs una dicatur."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laity, congregation, parish"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "laity",
          "laity"
        ],
        [
          "congregation",
          "congregation"
        ],
        [
          "parish",
          "parish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Late Latin, countable and uncountable, Christianity) laity, congregation, parish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Latin",
        "countable",
        "declension-3",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pleːbs/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pɫ̪eːps̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/plebs/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[plɛbs]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "plēbēs"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "plēbis"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plebs"
}

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