different between census vs censitary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nsus, from c?nse?. See censor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?ns?s/

Noun

census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)

1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
2. Count, tally.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)

1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.
2. (intransitive) To collect a census.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin census.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.z?s/
• Hyphenation: cen?sus

Noun

census m (plural censussen)

1. A census.

   Synonym: volkstelling

2. (historical) A tax that one has to pay to receive the right to vote in jurisdictions with census suffrage.

   Synonym: cijns

Derived terms

• censuskiesrecht

Related terms

• censureren
• censor
• censuur
• cijns

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sensus
• ? Indonesian: sensus

Latin

Etymology

From c?nse?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.sus/, [?k??s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.sus/, [?t???nsus]

Noun

c?nsus m (genitive c?ns?s); fourth declension

1. census, a registering of the populace and their property
2. A register resulting from a census.
3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Adjective

c?nsus (feminine c?nsa, neuter c?nsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. registered
2. assessed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

• census in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• census in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• census in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• census in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• census in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Alternative forms

• censitarian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin censitarius, from Latin censere "assess (for tax)". Compare French censitaire, Spanish and Italian censitario.

Adjective

censitary (not comparable)

1. (historical) (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted
   • 1895 "The Present Condition of Russia" Peter Kropotkin, Littell's Living Age (reprinted from Nineteenth Century) Volume 207, Number 2677 (26 October 1895) p.223, fn:

     The composition of the Provincial and District Assemblies out of representatives of the three orders (peasants, clergy, and nobles), and the censitary provisions taken for keeping the representatives of the peasants in a minority, were, as experience has shown, a useless and vexatious precaution.

   • 1988 "Peasant movements and communal property during the French Revolution" David Hunt, Theory and Society Volume 17, Number 2, p.255:

     By 1791-92, the two camps were moving toward a property-based, or censitary, compromise

Antonyms

• universal

Related terms

• cense, censor, census

Anagrams

• centirays, insectary