Masculine

colono

Meaning

  1. (masculine) colonist (a founder or member of a colony)
  2. (Brazil, masculine) an immigrant farmer, especially from a European country

Frequency

47k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈlõ.nu/
Etymology

From Latin colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier * quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

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