populatio

From populor (“lay waste”) +‎ -tiō.

populātiō f (genitive populātiōnis); third declension

1. the act of laying waste or plundering
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.15:

     Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere.

     Caesar restrained his men from battle, deeming it sufficient for the present to prevent the enemy from rapine, forage, and depredation.

2. plunder, booty
3. destruction, devastation, corruption, ruin

Third-declension noun.

From populus (“people”).

populātiō f (genitive populātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) population; a people, multitude

Third-declension noun.

• “populatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “populatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• populatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• populatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• populatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016