Cologne

See also cologne

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement founded by Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Proper noun

Cologne

1. A city in northwestern Germany on the Rhine River.

Translations

city in Germany

• Arabic: كولونيا (ar) (kulūnya) f
• Armenian: Քյոլն (hy) (K'yoln) 
• Belarusian: Кёльн (be) (Kjolʹn) m 
• Bulgarian: Кьолн (bg) (K’oln) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科隆 (cmn) (Kēlóng)

• Czech: Kolín nad Rýnem (cs)
• Dutch: Keulen (nl) n
• Finnish: Köln (fi)
• French: Cologne (fr) f
• German: Köln (de) n
• Greek: Κολωνία (el) (Kolonía) f 
• Hebrew: קלן (Keln)
• Hungarian: Köln (hu)
• Icelandic: Köln (is) f, Kolni (is) f (archaic)
• Interlingua: Colonia (ia)
• Italian: Colonia (it) f

• Japanese: ケルン (ja) (Kerun)
• Korean: 쾰른 (ko) (Koelleun)
• Kölsch: Kölle f
• Latin: Colōnia Agrippīna (la) f
• Macedonian: Келн (mk) (Kéln) m
• Marathi: कोलोन (mr) (kolona) n
• Old Norse: Kolni f
• Persian: کلن (fa) (koln)
• Polish: Kolonia (pl) f
• Russian: Кёльн (ru) (Kjolʹn) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Келн (sh) m

  Roman: Köln (sh) m

• Spanish: Colonia (es) f
• Swedish: Köln (sv) c
• Turkish: Köln (tr)
• Ukrainian: Кельн (uk) (Kelʹn) m 

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French

Etymology

From Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement founded by Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Proper noun

Cologne f

1. Cologne

Derived terms

• eau de Cologne