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colonial

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-ijos
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English colonial

    From colony + -al.

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    colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)

    1. Of or pertaining to a colony.
    2. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
      • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 25 November 2020, page 52:
        From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
      • 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN‎[2]:
        India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
    3. Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
    4. (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
    5. (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
    6. (biology) Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).

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    Noun

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    colonial (plural colonials)

    1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
      • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192:
        None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.
      • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 150:
        The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.
    2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
    3. A coin or postage stamp issued by a colony.
      • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
        This simple soul, who possesses a talent not inferior to that of Cavino at his best, has for many years turned his hand to the not unprofitable occupation of forging rare Greek and Roman coins. As a collector and student of certain Greek colonials and a specialist in forgeries I have been familiar with Stelli's workmanship for years.

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    Catalan

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    Etymology

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      From colònia +‎ -al.

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      colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural colonials)

      1. colonial

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      French

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      Etymology

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        From colonie +‎ -al.

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        colonial (feminine coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)

        1. colonial

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        Descendants

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        • → German: kolonial
        • → Romanian: colonial
        • → Turkish: kolonyal

        Noun

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        colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)

        1. a colonial, a resident of a colony
          Near-synonym: colon
        2. a soldier dispatched to a colony

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        Galician

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        Etymology

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          From colonia (“colony”) + -al (“of or relating to”).

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          • IPA(key): /koloniˈal/ [ko.lo.niˈɑɫ]
          • Rhymes: -al
          • Hyphenation: co‧lo‧ni‧al

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          colonial m or f (plural coloniais)

          1. colonial (of or pertaining to a colony)
          2. colonial (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
          3. (biology) colonial (tending to form colonies)

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          Occitan

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          Adjective

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          colonial m (feminine singular coloniala, masculine plural colonials, feminine plural colonialas)

          1. colonial

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          • "colonial", in dicodòc: multidiccionari occitan (oc→fr)
          • Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[3], 2nd edition, →ISBN

          Portuguese

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          Etymology

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            From colónia / colônia (“colony”) + -al (“of or relating to”).

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            • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.lo.niˈaw/ [ko.lo.niˈaʊ̯], (faster) /ko.loˈnjaw/ [ko.loˈnjaʊ̯]
             

            • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
            • Hyphenation: co‧lo‧ni‧al

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            colonial m or f (plural coloniais)

            1. (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)
              Governo colonial.
              Colonial government.
            2. (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)
              Synonym: colonialista
              Expansão colonial.
              Colonial expansion.
            3. (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)
              Arquitetura colonial.
              Colonial architecture.
            4. (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements
              Queijo colonial.
              [Type of cheese made by German immigrants].
            5. (biology) colonial (tending to form colonies)

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            Romanian

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            Etymology

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            Borrowed from French colonial. Equivalent to colonie +‎ -al.

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            colonial m or n (feminine singular colonială, masculine plural coloniali, feminine/neuter plural coloniale)

            1. colonial

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            Declension of colonial
            singular plural
            masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
            nominative-
            accusative             		indefinite colonial colonială coloniali coloniale
            definite colonialul coloniala colonialii colonialele
            genitive-
            dative             		indefinite colonial coloniale coloniali coloniale
            definite colonialului colonialei colonialilor colonialelor

            Spanish

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            Etymology

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            Etymology tree
            Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
            Proto-Indo-European *-eti
            Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti
            Proto-Italic *kʷelō
            Latin colō
            Latin colōnus
            Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
            Proto-Italic *-ijos
            Proto-Italic *-ios
            Old Latin -ios
            Latin -ius
            Latin -ia
            Latin colōniader.
            Spanish colonia
            Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
            Proto-Indo-European *-is
            Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
            Proto-Italic *-ālis
            Latin -ālis
            Spanish -al
            Spanish colonial

              From colonia + -al.

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              • IPA(key): /koloˈnjal/ [ko.loˈnjal]
              • Rhymes: -al
              • Syllabification: co‧lo‧nial

              Adjective

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              colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural coloniales)

              1. colonial

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