Where does “populaire” come from?

populaire (French) comes from Middle French populaire, from Latin populāris, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

populaire (French): people's; of the people

Definitions

  1. people's; of the people

Ancestry of “populaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchpopulaire—
2Latinpopulārispopular (by, of or for the people)
3Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
4Latin-ālis—
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “populaire”

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -āris →
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