colonus

Meaning

1. (declension-2) farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil
2. (declension-2) colonist, colonial, inhabitant

Concepts

farmer

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agrarian

rancher

settler

tiller of the soil

plowman

inhabitant

Synonyms

agricola

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cultor

arator

Translations

Bauer

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Landwirt

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Landwirtin

Ignorant

αγρότης

γεωργός

Agrarier

Siedler

Farmerin

Ignorantin

Farmer

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αγρότισσα

ramader

κτηνοτρόφος

بردزبه

Pronounced as (IPA)

[kɔˈɫoː.nʊs]

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from the ending of agricola and modelled on patrōnus. Alternatively, from the affixation of *-no- to *kʷolh₁-oh₁, the instrumental singular of a noun *kʷólh₁-o-. De Vaan posits, albeit uncertainly, a pre-form Proto-Italic *kʷelōnos. Ultimately from the root Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.