Where does “Pop” come from?

Pop derives from English popular, from Latin popularis, ultimately from Old Latin poplos via Proto-Italic poplos, with the suffix -aris tracing to Proto-Indo-European -li-.

Pop (English): A social club and debating society at Eton...

Definitions

  1. A social club and debating society at Eton...

Ancestry of “Pop”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpopularCommon among the general public; generally...
2Middle EnglishpopulerCommonly known
3Old Frenchpopulaire
4Latinpopulārispopular (by, of or for the people)
5Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
6Latin-ālis
7Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis
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