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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                    

    [Demos]

    ** English

    *** Etymology 1

    From [en]. [en].

    **** Pronunciation

    - [en] - [en]

    **** Noun

    [es]

    1. [en] An ancient subdivision of Attica ; [now also] a Greek municipality , an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. [from 18th c.] 2. [en] The ordinary citizen s of an ancient Greek city-state ; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people . [from 18th c.] 3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=w:Tim Blanning | title=The Pursuit of Glory | page=323 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2008 |passage=When the _DEMOS_ took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.}}

    ***** Translations

    [ancient subdivision of Attica]

    *** Etymology 2

    From [en].

    **** Noun

    [en]

    1. [en]

    **** Verb

    [en]

    1. [en]

    *** Further reading

    - [deme]

    *** Anagrams

    - [en] [en]

    ** Galician

    *** Noun

    [gl]

    1. [gl]

    *** Verb

    [gl]

    1. [dar] 2. [dar]

    ** Latin

    *** Etymology

    Borrowed from [la].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [dēmos] - [dēmōs]

    *** Noun

    [dēmos <2>]

    1. a [en] of [en] , a [en] , a [en] 2. the [en] of a _[la] :_ [en] , [especially] the [en] people 3. * AD 77–79 , 吴语: Pliny the Elder (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), _吴语: Natural History (Pliny)_ (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30 (see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+35.30&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0138) : 4. *: pinxit DEMON atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter. 5. *:: 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. <small> ― translation from: John Bostock, _The Natural History_ (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36 (see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+35.36&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137) </small>

    **** Declension

    [dēmos <2>]

    **** Synonyms

    - [tract of land] [la] [Pure Latin] - [inhabitants of a demos] - [people] [la] - [common people] [la]

    **** Related terms

    - [la] [Mediaeval Latin]

    *** Noun

    [la]

    1. [la]

    *** References

    - [dēmos] - [p=494/3]

    ** Portuguese

    *** Pronunciation 1

    [br=+]

    - [pt]

    **** Verb

    [pt]

    1. [dar]

    *** Pronunciation 2

    [pt-IPA]

    - [pt]

    **** Noun

    [pt]

    1. [pt]

    **** Verb

    [pt]

    1. [dar]

    ***** Alternative forms

    - [pt]

    ** Romanian

    *** Etymology

    [ro].

    *** Noun

    [n]

    1. [en]

    **** Declension

    [n=sg]

    ** Spanish

    *** Pronunciation

    [es-pr]

    *** Noun

    [es]

    1. [es]

    *** Verb

    [es]

    1. [dar]