colonus
See also: Colonus
English
Etymology
From Latin colōnus.
Noun
colonus (plural coloni)
- (historical) A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
Anagrams
- Coulons, Coulson
Latin
Etymology
From the root of colō (“cultivate, till”) + -ō + -us.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈloː.nus/, [kɔˈɫ̪oːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈlo.nus/, [koˈlɔːnus]
Noun
colōnus m (genitive colōnī, feminine colōna); second declension
- farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.677-678:
- frūgibus immēnsīs avidōs satiāte colōnōs,
ut capiant cultūs praemia digna suī.- Satisfy eager farmers with abundant crops,
that they may reap rewards worthy of their labors.
- Satisfy eager farmers with abundant crops,
- frūgibus immēnsīs avidōs satiāte colōnōs,
- 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 |
Synonyms
- (farmer): agricola, arātor
Derived terms
Derived terms
- colōna
- colōnātus
- colōnia
- colōnicus
Related terms
- agricola
- colō
- colōnārius
- colōniārius
- culta
- cultē
- cultiō
- cultor
- cultrīx
- cultūra
- cultus
Descendants
- Catalan: colon
- French: colon
- Italian: colono
- Portuguese: colono
- Sicilian: culunu
- 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
- “colonus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers