单词 | coloniate |
释义 | † coloniaten. Roman History. Obsolete. 1. In the later Roman Empire: a system of tenant labour whereby peasants who were not slaves, and so could not be bought or sold, were legally bound to the land on an estate; (also) the people living and working as tenant farmers within this system viewed as a class; = colonate n. ΚΠ 1853 F. Haywood tr. W. Ihne Researches Hist. Rom. Constitution 166 The formation of the Coloniate [Ger. des Colonats] was promoted by means of the regulations as to the number of free labourers required on estates, to the exclusion of slaves. 1905 Hist. of All Nations VI. 249 The ‘coloniate’ must have had its origin in some such evasion of the law. 2. The system of governance in a garrison settlement or colōnia (see colony n. 1a); an inhabitant of such a settlement.Only in Rose's explanatory text to his translations of Virgil. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > collectively > in ancient times colony1550 coloniate1866 1866 J. B. Rose in tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics Argt. 1 The Praetorian camp, in which the coloniate system merged, ruined Rome. 1866 J. B. Rose in tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics (Eclogue i. Argt.) 1 We find..the new coloniate exclaiming—‘out Old Colonist!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1853 |
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