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pop⋅u⋅late

[pop-yuh-leyt]
–verb (used with object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
1. to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
2. to furnish with inhabitants, as by colonization; people.

Origin:
1570–80; < ML populātus, ptp. of populāre to inhabit. See people, -ate 1
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populate 
1574, from M.L. populatus, pp. of populare "inhabit," from L. populus "inhabitants." Population "the degree to which a place is populated" is first recorded 1612, from L.L. populationem (c.470, nom. populatio) "a people, multitude," as if a noun of action from L. populus "people." Population explosion is first attested 1953.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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