different between population vs convivium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?pj??le???n/
• IPA^(key): /p?pju??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

population (plural populations)

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

2. (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
   • 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.

     […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.

6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Related terms

• popular
• populate
• populous

Translations

Danish

Noun

population

1. (statistics) population

Declension

See also

• stikprøve (“sample”)

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin popul?ti?, popul?ti?nem from Latin populus (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.py.la.sj??/

Noun

population f (plural populations)

1. A population

Related terms

• populaire
• populeux
• peuple

Further reading

• “population” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

population (plural populationes)

1. population

English

Noun

convivium (plural convivia)

1. A symposium.
2. (ecology) A geographically isolated population of a species that shows differentiation from other populations of the same species; becomes a subspecies or ecotype

Latin

Etymology

From convivo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?u?i?.u?i.um/, [k?n?u?i?u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?vi.vi.um/, [k?n?vi?vium]

Noun

conv?vium n (genitive conv?vi? or conv?v?); second declension

1. a banquet, a party, a feast

   Synonyms: c?miss?ti?, (Medieval) f?sta

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• convivium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• convivium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• convivium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• convivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• convivium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• convivium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin