单词 | colonate |
释义 | colonaten. Roman History. In the Roman Empire: a system of tenant (non-slave) labour on great estates, esp. a system whereby such tenants 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. ΚΠ 1846 C. Babington Infl. of Christianity Promoting Abolition of Slavery Europe iii. 196 With regard to the Colonate, it appears that in times of great famine many freemen became coloni to the rich and powerful. 1949 Classical Rev. 63 13/2 The colonate was common enough in first-century Italy to be discussed in some detail by Seneca and Columella. 1975 Arethusa 8 162 The transition from slavery to the colonate in Italy was..so gradual as to have left in doubt the very centuries in which it occurred. 2008 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 98 122 One [view] sees the colonate, within the context of agricultural exploitation, as the successor to the tenancy of the Late Republic..and as the precursor of the tied serf of the Middle Ages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1846 |
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