vulgus

American  

[vuhl-guhs] / ˈvʌl gəs /

noun

vulguses plural

1. the common people; masses.

2. an exercise in Latin formerly required of English public-school pupils.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• vulguses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of vulgus

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1680–90

Example Sentences

He knew, and they knew perfectly well that, whatever the vulgus profanum may think, my real work was the critical edition of Sâyana’s commentary on the Rig-veda.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Odi profanum vulgus, I hate your swearing and hectoring fellows.—H. W.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

He was accused, as the idle world always loves to accuse the visionary, of isolating himself from his kind with a muttered odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

Sedere cœpit sententia hæc pariterque et eruditum vulgus et rude in eam cursu vadit.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

This was called "the Vulgate," from the Latin vulgus, "the common people."

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman