"popular" in seven languages
Meaningpopular
Spanish
popular
/popuˈlaɾ/
learned
French
populaire
/pɔpylɛʁ/
learned
Italian
popolare
/popoˈlare/
learned
Portuguese
popular
/popuˈlah/
learned
Romanian
popular
/popuˈlar/
learned
Catalan
popular
/pupuˈla/
learned
English
popular
/ˈpɑpjəlɚ/
from Latin/French · Latin POPULĀRIS, via Anglo-Norman
English → ItalianpopularpopolareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
POPULĀREM‘of the people (POPULUS)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Learned in all three, but each shades it: Italian popolare, like Spanish popular, also means 'working-class' (quartiere popolare). The nouns pueblo, peuple, popolo are the older, worn-down family members.
English relatives: people (via French), population, public
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In a sentence
- esEsta canción es muy popular.
- frCette chanson est très populaire.
- itQuesta canzone è molto popolare.
- ptEssa música é muito popular.
- roMelodia asta e foarte populară.
- caAquesta cançó és molt popular.
- enThis song is very popular.