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Where does “populous” come from?

Populous comes from Latin populosus, meaning "full of people."

populous (English): Having a large population; Spoken by a large...

Definitions

  1. Having a large population; Spoken by a large...

Ancestry of “populous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpopulosusfull of people, populous; populous
2Latin-ōsus—
3Old Latin-ōssus—

Words derived from “populous”

  • populousness
  • unpopulous
  • populously
  • equipopulous
  • unpopulousness
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