Where does “popular” come from?

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

popular (Romanian): popular (of the people)

Definitions

  1. popular (of the people)

Ancestry of “popular”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpopulairepeople's; of the people
2Middle Frenchpopulaire—
3Latinpopulārispopular (by, of or for the people)
4Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
5Latin-ālis—
6Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “popular”

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