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colon

/kɔ.lɔ̃/

noun, masculine/kɔ.lɔ̃/plural: colons

colonist, colonizer, colonial settler; camper (child in a colonie de vacances); sharecropper in the system of colonat partiaire; hillbilly, hick

Sous les auspices du dictateur A. Cornelius Cossus, les Romains viennent de remporter une victoire sur leurs voisins Volsques, Latins et Herniques, associés aux colons romains en rébellion de Circéi et Vélitrae.Under the dictator A. Cornelius Cossus's auspice, the Romans had just achieved a victory over their Volscian, Latin, and Hernician neighbours, associated with rebellious Roman colonists of Circeii and Velitrae.

Learned borrowing from Latin colōnus.

noun, feminine/kɔ.lɔ̃/

colonel

Related: mon colon

Abbreviation of colonel.