vox populiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin vox populi (“voice of the people”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈvɒks ˈpɒpjuːlaɪ/

名詞

vox populi

1. voice of the people.
2. (politics) The public comment portion of a public meeting.
   • 2001 February 22, Eric Lipton, “Vox Populi Aside, Power to the City Council”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “To the extent that the Council passed a local law amending the Charter and the Council represents the people, it may be considered that the vox populi, which secured the initiated legislation, changed its own voice,” Justice Arthur E. Blyn of State Supreme Court wrote in the lower-court decision in 1987.

同意語

• vox pop, vox (abbreviation)

参考

• public opinion
• opinion poll

発音

(Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈwɔks ˈpɔ.pʊ.lɪ]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvɔks ˈpɔː.pu.li]

名詞

vōx populī f (genitive vōcis populī); third declension

1. vox populi