PEOPLE  , a collective See also:

• TERM

term for persons in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, especially as forming the See also:

• BODY

body of persons in a community or nation, the " folk " (the O.E. and Teut. word, cf . Ger . See also:

• VOLK, LEONARD WELLS (1828-1895)

Volk) . The earlier forms of the word were peple, See also:

• POE, EDGAR ALLAN (18og-1849)

poe See also:

• PIE

pie, puple, &c.; the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is found as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but was not established till the beginning of the 16th . Old See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, from which it was adapted, had many of these forms as well as the mod . Fr. peuple . The See also:

• LAT

Lat. populus is generally taken to be a reduplication from the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root ple,—fill, seen in plenus, full; See also:

• PLEBS (from the root seen in Lat. plenus, full; cf. Gr. 7rXit9os)

plebs, the See also:

• COMMONS

commons; Gr. rrMOor, multitude .