Borrowed from Latin vulgo.

vulgo (not comparable)

1. In the vernacular; commonly known as.
   • 1733, Philip Miller, “PERICLYMENUM”, in The Gardeners Dictionary:[…], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington,[…], →OCLC, column 1:

     PERICLYMENUM; […] Trumpet Honeyſuckle; vulgô.

   • 1822, George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands, 264-265:

     [Pope's Hole] derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo "popes".

   • 1828, John Walters, An English and Welsh Dictionary, page 304:

     A cow desiring the bull [vulgò a tufty cow]

vulgo (uncountable)

1. The masses.

• great unwashed
• hoi polloi

• Vogul

Borrowed from Latin vulgus. Compare Portuguese vulgo.

vulgo m (plural vulgos)

1. the common people, the masses

• vulgar
• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo

Borrowed from Latin vulgo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʊlɡoː]
• Hyphenation: vul‧go

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vulgo

1. vulgo; commonly known as

• “vulgo” in Duden online
• “vulgo” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• volgō

From vulgus (“the public; the common people”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwʊɫ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvul.ɡo]

vulgō (present infinitive vulgāre, perfect active vulgāvī, supine vulgātum); first conjugation

1. to broadcast; to publish; to divulge; to issue; to make known among the people

   Synonyms: praebeō, ostendō, ostentō, expōnō, prōdō, prōpōnō, prōferō, prōtrahō, indicō, profiteor, gerō, praestō

2. to make common; to prostitute
3. to make known to all by words; to spread abroad; to publish; to divulge
4. to cheapen; to degrade

   Synonym: dēgenerō

• English: vulgate

vulgō (not comparable)

1. generally, usually
2. universally
3. publicly, commonly, popularly

   Synonyms: pūblicē, apertē, prōpalam, palam

   Antonym: clam

vulgō

1. dative/ablative singular of vulgus

• “vulgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "vulgo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vulgo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • every one says: vulgo dicitur, pervulgatum est
    
  • to express oneself in popular language: ad vulgarem sensum or ad communem opinionem orationem accommodare (Off. 2. 10. 35)
    

• Hyphenation: vul‧go

Borrowed from Latin vulgus (“common people”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel (“to throng; crowd”).

vulgo m (uncountable)

1. the common people; the masses

Borrowed from Latin vulgo (“in the [language of] common people”), ablative singular of vulgus (“common people”).

vulgo (not comparable)

1. introduces a colloquial synonym, or a nickname; informally or commonly known as

   Ele sofre de tireomegalia, vulgo papeira.

   He suffers from thyromegaly, commonly known as goitre.

   René Higuita, vulgo O Escorpião, foi um goleiro colombiano.

   René Higuita, nicknamed The Scorpion, was a Colombian goalkeeper.

• “vulgo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “vulgo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “vulgo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “vulgo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin vulgus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulɡo/ [ˈbul.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -ulɡo
• Syllabification: vul‧go

vulgo m (plural vulgos)

1. the common people, the masses

vulgo

1. commonly known as

• “vulgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

By surface analysis, clipping of vulgär (“vulgar”) +‎ -o. Compare fetto, lyllo, svullo, etc. Possibly influenced by English vulgo. Attested (as part of compounds) since 1988.

vulgo

1. (slang) vulgar; of bad taste

• vulgokomedi

• “vulgo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “vulgo”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “vulgo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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