different between demis vs demos

English

Noun

demis

1. plural of demi

Anagrams

• Deism, Diems, deism, dimes, disme

French

Noun

demis m

1. plural of demi

Latin

Etymology 1

See d?m? (“I remove, take away, or subtract”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de?.mis/, [?d?e?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.mis/, [?d???mis]

Verb

d?mis

1. second-person singular present active indicative of d?m?

Etymology 2

See d?mos (“a tract of land”, “[the common] people”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de?.mi?s/, [?d?e?mi?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.mis/, [?d???mis]

Noun

d?m?s m

1. dative plural of d?mos
2. ablative plural of d?mos

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviated form of demonstration and other words.

Noun

demos

1. plural of demo

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?mo?s/

Noun

demos (plural demoi)

1. (political science) The common populace of a state or district, the people.
2. (modern Greece) A municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.
3. (historical, Ancient Greece) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state.
4. (historical, Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica.

Anagrams

• desmo, desmo-, domes, modes

Galician

Noun

demos

1. plural of demo

Verb

demos

1. first-person plural preterite indicative of dar

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (dêmos, “[the common] people”).

Pronunciation

• d?mos: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de?.mos/, [?d?e?m?s?]
• d?mos: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.mos/, [?d???m?s]
• d?m?s: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de?.mo?s/, [?d?e?mo?s?]
• d?m?s: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.mos/, [?d???m?s]

Noun

d?mos m (genitive d?m?); second declension

1. a tract of land, a demos, a deme
2. the inhabitants of a d?mos: people, especially the common people
   • AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30:

     pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter.

     In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ? translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

Synonyms

• (tract of land): p?gus (Pure Latin)
• (inhabitants of a demos):
  • (people): populus
  • (common people): vulgus

Related terms

• d?mocratia (Mediaeval Latin)

Noun

d?m?s m

1. accusative plural of d?mos

References

• d?mos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• d?m?s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 494/3

  Lists both senses.

  Lists only the “people” sense.

Portuguese

Noun

demos

1. plural of demo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?demos/, [?d?e.mos]

Noun

demos

1. plural of demo

Verb

demos

1. First-person plural (nosotros, nosotras) present subjunctive form of dar.
2. First-person plural (nosotros, nosotras) imperative form of dar.