vulgus

Noun

 * 1)  A school exercise in which pupils are tasked with writing a short piece of Greek or Latin verse on a given subject.

Etymology
May be from or, perhaps from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; see also  for the same or a similar root.

Some have attempted, without success, to link it to, whence.

Noun

 * 1)  the common people
 * 2)  the public
 * 3) throng, crowd
 * 4) gathering
 * 1) gathering

Declension
There is also the heteroclitic ablative singular.