colonia

See also: Colonia, colónia, colònia, colônia, Colónia, Colònia, and Colônia

Interlingua

Noun

colonia (plural colonias)

1. colony

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja
• Hyphenation: co‧lò‧nia

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. colony

Related terms

• coloniale
• colonialismo
• colonialista
• colonizzare

Etymology 2

Short for acqua di Colonia, itself a calque of French eau de Cologne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja
• Hyphenation: co‧lò‧nia

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. cologne, eau de Cologne

   Synonym: acqua di Colonia

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.loˈni.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: co‧lo‧nì‧a

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. holding (farm)

Etymology 4

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. resort

Related terms

• colonato
• colonico
• colono
• colonia marina

Anagrams

• Nicolao, caolino

Latin

Etymology

From colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlɔː.ni.a]

Noun

colōnia f (genitive colōniae); first declension

1. A colony, settlement
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.8:

     Quid? Cum tē Praeneste Kalendīs ipsīs Novembribus occupātūrum nocturnō impetū esse cōnfīderēs, sēnsistīne illam colōniam meō iussū meīs praesidiīs, cūstōdiīs, vigiliīs esse mūnītam?

     What [about this]? When you were confident that you would seize Praeneste with a night attack on the very first of November, did you realize that that colony had been fortified by my orders, with my garrisons, guards, and watchmen?

2. A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate
3. (metonymic) The people composing a colony, colonists

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	colōnia	colōniae
genitive	colōniae	colōniārum
dative	colōniae	colōniīs
accusative	colōniam	colōniās
ablative	colōniā	colōniīs
vocative	colōnia	colōniae

Derived terms

• colōnārius
• Colōnia Agrippīna
• colōniārius

Related terms

• agricola
• colō
• colōna
• colōnātus
• colōnicus
• colōnus
• culta
• cultē
• cultiō
• cultor
• cultūra
• cultus

Descendants

• See also the descendants at Colonia Agrippina.

• Catalan: colònia
• Czech: kolonie
• Danish: koloni
• Dutch: kolonie
  • Afrikaans: kolonie
  • → Indonesian: koloni
• English: colony
  • Tok Pisin: koloni
  • → Tokelauan: kolone
• → Middle French: colonie
  • French: colonie
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قولونی (koloni)
      • Turkish: koloni
• Galician: colonia
• German: Kolonie
• Italian: colonia
• Norwegian: koloni
• Occitan: colònia
• Polish: kolonia
• Portuguese: colônia, colónia (Portugal)
• Romanian: colonie
• Russian: коло́ния (kolónija)
• Spanish: colonia
• Swedish: koloni

References

• “colonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “colonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to found a colony somewhere: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
    
  • to found a colony: coloniam constituere (Leg. Agr. 1. 5. 16)
    
• “colonia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “colonia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “colonia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “colonia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Romanian

Noun

colonia

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of colonie

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlonja/ [koˈlo.nja]

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• Rhymes: -onja
• Syllabification: co‧lo‧nia

Etymology 1

From Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)

1. colony
2. (Mexico) neighbourhood
   • 2025 October 19, Redacción GH, “Ataque armado deja dos muertos en un car wash de la colonia Las Cruces”, in El Imparcial‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 October 2025:

     Dos trabajadores de un car wash fueron asesinados la tarde de este sábado durante un ataque armado registrado en la colonia Las Cruces, en la delegación San Antonio de los Buenos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

• In Mexico it is usually shortened and capitalized as "Col." in addresses, where it has postal value and is obligatory (or fraccionamiento, or barrio), alongside of postal code (zip code).

Derived terms

• Colonia Le Barón, Colonia Lebarón
• colonia penal
• coloniaje
• colonial
• colonialismo
• colonialista
• colonizar

Related terms

• colono

See also

• fraccionamiento
• urbanización
• barrio

Etymology 2

From agua de Colonia, from French eau de Cologne, ultimately from Latin Colōnia Claudia Āra Agrippīnēnsium, Cologne, the current city in Germany, and cognate of English colony.

Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)

1. eau de Cologne

Further reading

• “colonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024