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Is colonus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word colonus is a Scrabble US word. The word colonus is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is colonus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word colonus is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

C3O1L1O1N1U1S1

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Yes. The word colonus is a Words With Friends word. The word colonus is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

COLONUS,

6-letter words (5 found)

CLONUS,COLONS,CONSOL,CONSUL,UNCOOL,

5-letter words (16 found)

CLONS,CLOUS,COLON,CONUS,COOLS,COONS,LOCOS,LOCUS,LOONS,LOUNS,NOLOS,NOULS,ONCUS,SNOOL,SOLON,UNCOS,

4-letter words (25 found)

CLON,CLOU,COLS,CONS,COOL,COON,COOS,LOCO,LOON,LOOS,LOUN,LOUS,LUNS,NOLO,NOUL,NOUS,ONOS,ONUS,OONS,SCUL,SOLO,SOOL,SOON,SOUL,UNCO,

3-letter words (22 found)

COL,CON,COO,COS,LOO,LOS,LOU,LUN,NOO,NOS,NUS,ONO,ONS,OON,OOS,OUS,SOC,SOL,SON,SOU,SUN,UNS,

2-letter words (10 found)

LO,NO,NU,ON,OO,OS,OU,SO,UN,US,

You can make 79 words from colonus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of colonus

colonus

Etymology

From Latin colōnus.

Noun

colonus (plural coloni)

  1. (historical) A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.

Anagrams

  • Coulons, Coulson

Latin

Etymology

From the root of colō (“cultivate, till”) + -ō + -us.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈloː.nus/, [kɔˈɫ̪oːnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈlo.nus/, [koˈlɔːnus]

Noun

colōnus m (genitive colōnī, feminine colōna); second declension

  1. farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil
  2. colonist, colonial, inhabitant

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (farmer): agricola, arātor

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References

  • “colonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “colonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colonus 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)
  • colonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “colonus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “colonus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Source: wiktionary.org