census

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin census, from cēnseō. See censor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsəs/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

census (plural censuses)

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.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:

     In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...

Verb

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

1. To collect a census.

Etymology

From cēnseō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽː.sʊs]

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

Adjective

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

1. registered
2. assessed

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, 1883–1887)
• census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the census: censum habere, agere (Liv. 3. 22)
    
  • to strike off the burgess-roll: censu prohibere, excludere
    
• 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