Population
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late 16th century (denoting an inhabited place): from late Latin populatio(n- ), from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’.
wiktionary
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio(“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.
etymonline
population (n.)
1610s, "whole number of inhabitants in a country, state, county, town, etc," from Late Latin populationem (nominative populatio) "a people; a multitude," as if from Latin populus "a people" (see people (n.)). From 1776 as "act or process of peopling" (a country, etc.). Population explosion "rapid or sudden increase in the size of a population" is attested by 1953.
