colonus

See also: Colonus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colōnus.

Noun

colonus (plural coloni)

1. (historical) A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.

Anagrams

• Coulons, Coulson

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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

1. farmer
2. colonist, colonial, inhabitant

   Colonos novos ascribere.

   To appoint new inhabitants.

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

Synonyms

• (farmer): agricola, arātor

Derived terms

Derived terms

• colōna
• colōnātus

• colōnia
• colōnicus

Related terms

• agricola
• colō
• colōnārius
• colōniārius
• culta

• cultē
• cultiō
• cultor
• cultūra
• cultus

Descendants

• Catalan: colon
• French: colon
• Italian: colono

• Portuguese: colono
• Spanish: colono

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