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Noun
colona f (plural colones)
- female equivalent of colon
Italian
Noun
colona f (plural colone)
- female equivalent of colono
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Feminine form of colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).
Pronunciation
Noun
colōna f (genitive colōnae); first declension
- farmer (female), farmeress, countrywoman
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “colona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “colona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- colona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- colona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “colona”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
colona f (plural colonas)
- female equivalent of colono
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈlona/
- Rhymes: -ona
- Syllabification: co‧lo‧na
Noun
colona f (plural colonas)
- female equivalent of colono