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

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

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. colony

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

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • 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
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
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)

  1. eau de Cologne

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