Where does “colon” come from?
colon (Catalan) comes from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti, from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- — to turn.
colon (Catalan): colonist, settler; farmer during the Roman Empire
Definitions
- colonist, settler; farmer during the Roman Empire
Ancestry of “colon”, step by step
colon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin colōnus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 2 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 3 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |