English → Latin
“farmer” in Latin
colōnusfarmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil; colonist, colonial, inhabitaarōto plough, till; to cultivate land, farm; to acquire by tillage; to draw furrows over the body, wrinklepoliōto polish, to smoothpūblicānuspublic revenue
The English word farmer itself goes back to Latin firma, through firmarius.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
farmer
agricbla: colonus (general term for the cultivator of a farm, ☞ ruricola poetically): arator (who tilled the state domains for a tenth of the produce; ☞ Cic., 2 Verr. 3, 23, 57): politor (a laborer to whom a piece of land was given, to be paid for by a share of the produce; ☞ Cat., R.R., 137, and Schneider, ad loc., p. 175): homo rusticus (general term). [Vid: COUNTRYMAN.] A farmer of the public revenues, etc., publicanus (with reference to his condition in life): redemptor vectigalium (with reference to the particular thing he farms).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for farmer?
- The usual Latin words for “farmer” are colōnus, arō, poliō; also pūblicānus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.