Latin

Alternative forms

• volgus

Noun

vulgus n, m ‎(genitive vulgī); second declension

1. (uncountable) the common people
2. (uncountable) the public
3. throng, crowd
4. gathering

Inflection

Second declension neuter with nominative/accusative/vocative in -us.

Vulgus is also rarely encountered as a regular masculine second declension noun.

Second declension.

There is also the ablative singular vulgu

Synonyms

• (crowd): multitūdō, turba

Derived terms

• vulgāris
• vulgārius
• vulgivagus
• vulgō

Related terms

• vulgāritās
• vulgāriter
• vulgātē
• vulgātor
• vulgātus

Descendants

References

• vulgus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• VULGUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vulgus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
    
  • to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
    
  • a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus