Where does “colonus” come from?
colonus (English) 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.
colonus (English): A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman...
Definitions
- A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman...
Ancestry of “colonus”, step by step