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people

/pˈipəl/ 最頻出 頻度 91位

要点人々、世間の人、国民、住民

意味

  1. 《複数扱い》(一般に)人々
  2. 《複数扱い》世間の人
  3. 国民,民族
  4. 《the people》《複数扱い》(国家・自治体の)住民,有権者
  5. 《the people》《複数扱い》(特権級に対して)一般民衆,庶民
  6. 《one's people》《複数扱い》(支配者・指導者などに)支配(指導)される人々,部下
  7. 《複数扱い》(動物に対して)人間
  8. 《one's people》《複数扱い》《話》家族,身内
  9. …に人々を住まわせる,植民する

例文

語源

ラテン語populus「民・国民」から「人々・国民」。

popular(大衆の・人気のある)、population(人口)と同じ語源。

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

From Middle English puple, peple, peeple, from Anglo-Norman people, from Old French pueple, peuple, pople, from Latin populus (“a people, nation”), from Old Latin populus, from earlier poplus, from even earlier poplos, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”) of unknown origin. Doublet of pueblo. Gradually ousted native English lede and, partially, folk. Originally used with singular verbs (e.g. "the people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness" in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 17:29), the plural aspect of people is probably due to influence from Middle English lede, leed, a plural since Old English times; see lēode.

出典: Wiktionary「people」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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