colonicus Latin · revision 9646

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=ine-pro *kʷelh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔˈɫoː.nɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈlɔː.ni.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''colōnicus''' (feminine colōnica, neuter colōnicum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD derives it from [[colōnia]] “colony” with the suffix [[-cus]], and the TLL, Lewis & Short and Gaffiot derive it from [[colōnus]] “farmer, settler”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) ⟨colōnus⟩ is from [[m|la|colō|t=to till, inhabit]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*kʷelh₁-e/o-|t=to go round]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Varro's ''Rēs rūsticae'', of ''lēgēs colōnicae''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD takes it as of or prescribed for a colony, colonial, while Lewis & Short and Gaffiot take Varro's use as of farming or a farm, and Pliny has ''genus ovium colōnicum'', a common breed of farm sheep.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin charters of the 6th–8th centuries it was a noun, a colonus, cultivator.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of farm sheep.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or prescribed for a [[m|en|colony]], colonial.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of a farm or [[m|en|husbandry]], ''(of sheep)'' common, farm.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[colōnica]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[agricola]]

+ * [[colō]]

+ * [[colōna]]

+ * [[colōnārius]]

+ * [[colōnātus]]

+ * [[colōnia]]

+ * [[colōniārius]]

+ * [[colōnus]]

+ * [[culta]]

+ * [[cultē]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}