Word: 'population' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'population' • Extended Annotations
from Latin populatio, "laying waste, devastation; plunder, booty, prey; population"
from populor "plunder, bereave/rob, destroy, waste"
In many Latin dictionaries, populatio has been split into two separate entries, segregating the exact same word instead of simply listing all its meanings in one entry.
Additionally, the added contemporary meanings make room for truthful (as per the definition) but deceptive or misleading statements.
Such as, reading the statistics of a population of a country, the reader will not consider that it refers to a mere group (as per "a group of individual persons, objects, or items from which samples are taken for statistical measurement")
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |