vulgus

• volgus

From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to throng, crowd”), see also Welsh gwala (“sufficiency, enough”), Middle Breton gwalc'h (“abundance”), Ancient Greek εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), Sanskrit वर्ग (varga, “group, division”), Latin volvō.

Some have attempted, without success, to link it to Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-go, whence English folk.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwul.ɡus/, [ˈwʊɫ.ɡʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvul.ɡus/

vulgus n sg or m sg (genitive vulgī); second declension

1. (uncountable) the common people
2. (uncountable) the public
3. throng, crowd
4. gathering

Second declension, usually nominative/accusative/vocative in -us.

Second declension neuter, nominative/accusative/vocative in -us. Also rarely encountered as a regular masculine second declension noun.

There is also the heteroclitic ablative singular vulgū.

• (crowd): multitūdō, turba

• vulgāris
• vulgārius
• vulgivagus
• vulgō

• vulgāritās
• vulgāriter
• vulgātē
• vulgātor
• vulgātus

• vulgus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vulgus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vulgus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
    
  • to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
    
  • a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus