English Online Dictionary. What means census? What does census mean?
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)
- 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.
- Count, tally.
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Verb
census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)
- (transitive) To conduct a census on.
- (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)
- a census
- Synonym: volkstelling
- (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
- → Sranan Tongo: sènses
Latin
Etymology
From cēnseō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛnsus]
Noun
cēnsus m (genitive cēnsūs); fourth declension
- census, a registering of the populace and their property
- a register resulting from a census
- (poetic) rich gifts, presents, wealth
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
Adjective
cēnsus (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second-declension adjective
- registered
- assessed
- reckoned
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[2], 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