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Webster 1913 Edition
Census
1.
(Bot. Antiq.)
A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; – usually made once in five years.
2.
An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
☞ A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since.
Webster 1828 Edition
Census
CENSUS
, n.1.
In ancient Rome, an authentic declaration made before the censors, by the citizens, of their names and places of abode. This declaration was registered, and contained an enumeration of all their lands and estates, their quantity and quality, with the wives, children, domestics, tenants, and slaves of each citizen. Hence the word signifies this enumeration or register, a mans whole substance, and the tax imposed according to each mans property.2.
In the United States of America, an-enumeration of the inhabitants of all the States, taken by order of the Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each State is entitled in the Congress; also, an enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of its legislature.Definition 2024
census
census
English
Noun
census (plural censuses)
- An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
Translations
official count of members of a population
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Verb
census (third-person singular simple present censuses, present participle censusing, simple past and past participle censused)
- To collect a census.
Translations
collect a census
Latin
Etymology
From cēnseō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽː.sʊs]
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,
Inflection
Fourth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cēnsus | cēnsūs |
| genitive | cēnsūs | cēnsuum |
| dative | cēnsuī | cēnsibus |
| accusative | cēnsum | cēnsūs |
| ablative | cēnsū | cēnsibus |
| vocative | cēnsus | cēnsūs |
Descendants
Adjective
cēnsus m (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | cēnsus | cēnsa | cēnsum | cēnsī | cēnsae | cēnsa | |
| genitive | cēnsī | cēnsae | cēnsī | cēnsōrum | cēnsārum | cēnsōrum | |
| dative | cēnsō | cēnsō | cēnsīs | ||||
| accusative | cēnsum | cēnsam | cēnsum | cēnsōs | cēnsās | cēnsa | |
| ablative | cēnsō | cēnsā | cēnsō | cēnsīs | |||
| vocative | cēnse | cēnsa | cēnsum | cēnsī | cēnsae | cēnsa | |
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)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “census”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
- to hold the census: censum habere, agere (Liv. 3. 22)
- 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