peple

English

Noun

peple pl (plural only)

1. Obsolete spelling of people.

Anagrams

• Epple, Pepel

Middle English

Alternative forms

• peeple, peopill, people, pepil, pepill, pepul, pepull, pepyl, pepyll, peuple, poepil, poeple, puple

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French pueple and Anglo-Norman people, from Latin populus, from Proto-Italic *poplos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːpəl/, /ˈpeːplə/, /ˈpiu̯pəl/, /ˈpiu̯plə/

Noun

peple (plural peples)

1. people (multiple individuals)
2. people (a group or class of individuals)
3. subjects (of a ruler), followers (of a doctrine)
4. nation, race, stock
5. crowd, mass, gathering (of people)
6. army, retinue (group of armed people)
7. commoners (as opposed to nobility or clergy)
8. humankind, humanity; all people

Usage notes

• Unlike in modern English, usually treated as a singular.

Descendants

• English: people
• Scots: people

References

• “pẹ̄ple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.