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colonus

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: K AH0 L OW1 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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noun

Meaning 1

A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kwélh1eti Proto-Italic *kwelō Latin colō Latin colōnusbor. English colonus Borrowed from Latin colōnus.