PEOPLE

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PEOPLE , a collective

term

TERM

for persons in

general

, especially as forming the

body

BODY

of persons in a community or nation, the " folk " (the O.E. and Teut. word, cf. Ger. Volk). The earlier forms of the word were peple, poe pie, puple, &c.; the present form is found as early as the 15th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a
hundred
- HUNDRED
men)

, but was not established till the beginning of the 16th. Old

French

FRENCH
CHESTER
- CHESTER
- CHESTER, EARLS OF
_1850_.html">FRENCH, DANIEL
CHESTER
- CHESTER
- CHESTER, EARLS OF
(1850– )
FRENCH,
NICHOLAS
(1604-1678)

, from which it was adapted, had many of these forms as well as the mod. Fr. peuple. The Lat. populus is generally taken to be a reduplication from the

root

ple,fill, seen in plenus, full;

plebs

root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
_seen_in_La.html">PLEBS (from the root seen in Lat. plenus, full; cf. Gr. 7rXit9os)

, the commons; Gr. rrMOor, multitude.

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