colonia

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Interlingua

Noun

colonia (plural colonias)

  1. colony

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: co‧lò‧nia
  • IPA(key): /koˈlɔ.nja/

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. colony

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈlɔ.nja/
  • Hyphenation: co‧lò‧nia

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. cologne, eau de Cologne
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko.loˈni.a/
  • Hyphenation: co‧lo‧nìa

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. holding (farm)

Etymology 4

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. resort

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From colōnus (farmer; colonist), from colō (till, cultivate, worship).

Pronunciation

Noun

colōnia f (genitive colōniae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative colōnia colōniae
Genitive colōniae colōniārum
Dative colōniae colōniīs
Accusative colōniam colōniās
Ablative colōniā colōniīs
Vocative colōnia colōniae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: colònia
  • English: colony
  • French: colonie
  • Galician: colonia
  • Italian: colonia

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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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈlonja/ [koˈlo.nja]

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

Derived terms

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).

See also

Etymology 2

From agua de Colonia, from French eau de Cologne, ultimately from Latin Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Cologne, the current city in Germany, and cognate of colony.

Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)

  1. eau de Cologne

Further reading