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