The noun belligerent refers to a country or other group involved in a war or conflict. The adjective belligerent means hostile, or inclined to fight.The plural noun belligerents has the same sound as...
It's from the ancient Greek.
Homeo/homo means 'the same'. Like homosexual is liking the same sex.
Stasis means keeping still. Like stationary, static etc.
So homeostasis is keeping everything...
People, as sense of populace, domestic population from late 13th. century, "humans, persons in general," from Anglo-French people, Old French peupel, from Latin populus "people"