different between surveillance vs census

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigil?re, present active infinitive of vigil? (“I am watchful”). More at vigilant.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s???ve?.l?ns/

Noun

surveillance (countable and uncountable, plural surveillances)

1. Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
2. Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
3. (military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
4. (law) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.

Derived terms

Related terms

• surveil

Translations

See also

• wiretapping
• shadowing
• tailing
• lookout (act)
• sousveillance

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French surveillance.

Pronunciation

Noun

surveillance f (plural surveillances)

1. stakeout

French

Etymology

From surveiller +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.v?.j??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

surveillance f (plural surveillances)

1. surveillance
2. supervision

Derived terms

• Comité de surveillance des activités de renseignement de sécurité

Descendants

• ? Dutch: surveillance
• ? English: surveillance

Further reading

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

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