colō coluī, cultus, ere COL-, to till, tend, care for, cultivate: agrum, T.: agros, Cs.: colendi causā in agro esse: agri qui coluntur: hortos, V.: arbores, H.: fructūs, V.: fruges, O.: Pater ipse colendi, V.

—To frequent, dwell in, stay in, inhabit, abide, live, dwell: colitur ea pars (urbis): urbem, V.: regnum, O.: arva gelidumque Anienem, and the banks of, V.: Rheni ripam, Ta.: anguis Stagna colit, haunts, V.: proximi Cattis Usipii colunt, Ta.: circa ripam Rhodani, L.

—Fig., of the gods, to frequent, cherish, care for, protect, guard, watch over: quas condidit arces, Ipsa colat, V.: nymphis colentibus undas, O.: Iuno, quae Veios colis, L.: urbem, L.: terras hominumque genus, H.

— To honor, revere, reverence, worship: Mercurium, Cs.: deos patrios: Musarum delubra: sacra: o colendi Semper et culti, H.: colebantur religiones pie, L.: numina, V.: caerimonias sepulcrorum: sacrarium summā caerimoniā, N.

— To honor, esteem, love, adhere to, cherish: nos coluit maxime, T.: a quibus diligenter videmur coli: hunc virum, S.: poetarum nomen: in amicis colendis: plebem Romanam, L.: alqm litteris, N.: nec illos arte, nec opulenter, S.

—To attend to, dress, clothe, adorn, etc.: formamque augere colendo, by attire, O.

—To cultivate, cherish, seek, practise, devote oneself to, follow, observe: studia: fidem rectumque, O.: ius et fas, L.: memoriam alicuius: bonos mores, S.: pietatem, T.: ius bonumque, S.: orationis genus: patrias artes, O.

—To experience, live through, pass, spend: vitam illam: vitam inopem, T.