colonus
See also: Colonus
English
Etymology
Noun
colonus (plural coloni)
- (historical) A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
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From the root of colō (“cultivate, till”) + -ō + -us.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koˈloː.nus/, [kɔˈɫ̪oːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈlo.nus/, [koˈlɔːnus]
Noun
colōnus m (genitive colōnī); second declension
- farmer
- colonist, colonial, inhabitant
- Colonos novos ascribere.
- To appoint new inhabitants.
- Colonos novos ascribere.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | colōnus | colōnī |
Genitive | colōnī | colōnōrum |
Dative | colōnō | colōnīs |
Accusative | colōnum | colōnōs |
Ablative | colōnō | colōnīs |
Vocative | colōne | colōnī |
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References
- “colonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “colonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- colonus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- colonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “colonus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “colonus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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