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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Ovid|origins=la colō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔˈɫoː.na]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈlɔː.na]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''colōna''' ''f'' (genitive colōnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is the feminine of [[colōnus]] “farmer, settler”, from [[colō]] “to till”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Ovid, of a farmer's wife.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Ovid 43 BC–18 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a countrywoman, a female cultivator, a farmer's wife, as in Ovid's ''Fasti'', and in Ulpian and the Digest a female tenant of land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Medieval Latin it meant a woman with the status of the ''colōnī'', the dependent tenants.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a female tenant.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A countrywoman, farmer's wife.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # A female [[m|en|tenant]] of land.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[colōnus]]
+ * [[colō]]
+ * [[colōnia]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}