popularitasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From populāris +‎ -tās.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pɔ.pʊˈɫaː.rɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [po.puˈlaː.ri.tas]

名詞

populāritās f (genitive populāritātis); third declension

1. (post-Augustan) popularity: an effort to please the people, a courting of popular favors
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita Gai 15:

     Incendebat et ipse studia hominum omni genere popularitatis.

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   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Titi 8:

     Ne quid popularitatis praetermitteret, nonnumquam in thermis suis admissa plebe lavit.

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   • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 3.69:

     Quanto rarior apud Tiberium popularitas tanto laetioribus animis accepta.

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   • 89 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Silvae 2.VII.64–VII.69:

     Mox coepta generosior iuventa
     albos ossibus Italis Philippos
     et Pharsalica bella detonabis,
     quo fulmen ducis inter arma divi,
     libertate gravem pia Catonem
     et gratum popularitate Magnum.

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2. (Old Latin, hapax legomenon) an ethnic affinity
   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 5.2.79–81:

     O mi popularis, salve. — Et tu edepol, quisquis es.
     Et si quid opus est, quaeso, dic atque impera
     popularitatis causa.

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3. (Late Latin) a population, inhabitants
   • c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, De anima 30:

     Invenimus autem apud commentarios etiam humanarum antiquitatum, paulatim humanum genus exuberasse, dum Aaborigines, vel vagi, vel extorres, vel gloriosi quique occupant terras, ut Scythae Parthicas, ut Amyclae Peloponesum, ut Athenienses Asiam, ut Phryges Italiam, ut Phoenices Africam, dum solennes etiam migrationes, quas ἀποικίας appellant, consilio exonerandae popularitatis, in alios fines examina gentis eructant.

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   • 207 CE – 208 CE, Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.10:

     Denique, maior popularitas generis humani, ne nominis quidem Mosis compotes, nedum instrumenti, Deum Mosis tamen norunt, etiam tantam idololatria dominationem obumbrante; […]

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語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: popularity
• French: popularité

Further reading

• “popularitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "popularitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “popularitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.