census

census

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛnsəs/

Noun

census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)

  1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
  2. Count, tally.

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Translations

Verb

census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)

  1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.
  2. (intransitive) To collect a census.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin census.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.zʏs/
  • Hyphenation: cen‧sus

Noun

census m (plural censussen)

  1. A census.
    Synonym: volkstelling
  2. (historical) A tax that one has to pay to receive the right to vote in jurisdictions with census suffrage.
    Synonym: cijns

Derived terms

  • censuskiesrecht

Related terms

  • censureren
  • censor
  • censuur
  • cijns

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: sensus
  • Indonesian: sensus

Latin

Etymology

From cēnseō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽːs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛnsus]

Noun

cēnsus m (genitive cēnsūs); fourth declension

  1. census, a registering of the populace and their property
  2. A register resulting from a census.
  3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Adjective

cēnsus (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. registered
  2. assessed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • census”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • census”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • census 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)
  • census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • census”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • census”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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