colonum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →colona, colonae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
female farmer/tenant/cultivator of land; farmer's wife; countrywoman (L+S);
gen. pl. - Entry →colonus, coloni:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
farmer, cultivator, tiller; tenant-farmer; settler, colonist; inhabitant;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
- A
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...quoque et aedium fieri furtum; condemnatum quoque furti colonum, qui fundo, quem conduxerat, vendito possessione eius dominum intervertisset..." Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Paris, sepulchro. XIV Heredes, nolite brevem sepelire colonum: nam terra est illi quantulacumque gravis. XV Sunt chartae mihi..."- Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...agello cum pecore et gnatis fortem mercede colonum 'non ego' narrantem 'temere edi luce profesta quicquam praeter holus..."
