colonia
Interlingua
Noun
colonia (plural colonias)
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).
Pronunciation
Noun
colonia f (plural colonie)
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Etymology 2
Short for acqua di Colonia, itself a calque of French eau de Cologne.
Pronunciation
Noun
colonia f (plural colonie)
- cologne, eau de Cologne
- Synonym: acqua di Colonia
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
colonia f (plural colonie)
- holding (farm)
Etymology 4
Noun
colonia f (plural colonie)
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Latin
Etymology
From colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koˈloː.ni.a/, [kɔˈɫ̪oːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈlo.ni.a/, [koˈlɔːniä]
Noun
colōnia f (genitive colōniae); first declension
- A colony, settlement.
- A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate.
- (metonymically) The people composing a colony, colonists.
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | colōnia | colōniae |
genitive | colōniae | colōniārum |
dative | colōniae | colōniīs |
accusative | colōniam | colōniās |
ablative | colōniā | colōniīs |
vocative | colōnia | colōniae |
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Descendants
- Catalan: colònia
- Czech: kolonie
- Danish: koloni
- Dutch: kolonie
- English: colony
- French: colonie
- 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)
- to found a colony somewhere: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
- “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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).
Noun
colonia f (plural colonias)
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).
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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)
Further reading
- “colonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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