demos

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

noun

1. (originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.
2. (political science, singular or plural) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.
   When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded. 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 323

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

noun

1. plural of demo