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vulgus
Latin · ancient
"the common people, the crowd"
the common people, the crowd
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vulgaris
Latin · ancient
"of the common people, ordinary"
of the common people, ordinary, from vulgus
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vulgar
English · 1300s
"originally common or ordinary, later crude or offensive"
settled as the English word originally for something common, later shifting to mean crude
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