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
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..."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..."
