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
From the root of colō (“to cultivate, till; inhabit”). The source of the ending -ōnus is uncertain. Leumann 1977 proposes a formation from agricola, remodeled by analogy to patrōnus.[1] Alternatively, De Vaan 2008 tentatively suggests it could go back to Proto-Italic *kʷolō-no-, a deinstrumental formation built from the singular instrumental form *kʷolh₁-oh₁ of an o-stem action noun *kʷólh₁-o- + the adjective-forming suffix *-no- (Latin -nus).[2] Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel(h₁)-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈɫoː.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈlɔː.nus]
Noun
colōnus m (genitive colōnī, feminine colōna); second declension
- farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil
- colonist, colonial, inhabitant
- Colonos novos ascribere.
- To appoint new inhabitants.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| 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
- ^ Leumann, Manu; Hofmann, Johann Baptist; Szantyr, Anton (1977), Lateinische Grammatik: Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre, CH Beck, § 294.3.a, page 323:
- patrōnus und matrōna, vielleicht mit gr. υἱωνός 'Enkel' zu vergleichen (s. auch Schmeja, IF 68, 22 f. wegen gr. μάτρως πάτρως 'Mutter- Vater-bruder'); patr- erst nach mātr- (Wackernagel, Kl. Schr. 472). Von agricola aus colōnus als Gegenstück zu patrōnus (vgl. Cato agr. praef. 2).
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125
Further reading
- “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, 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