-cola

Borrowed from Latin -cola, from the verbal root of colō (“to till, cultivate, inhabit”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ko.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ko.la]

-cola m or f (adjective-forming suffix, masculine and feminine plural -coles)

1. cultivating, breeding
2. inhabiting

-cola m or f by sense (noun-forming suffix, plural -coles)

1. cultivator, breeder
2. inhabitant (forming nouns and adjectives)

• “-cola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

colō +‎ -a (agent noun)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.la/, [kɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.la/, [kolä] (stressed on the antepenult)

-cola m (genitive -colae); first declension

1. inhabitor (one who inhabits)

   rūpēs + -cola → rūpicola

2. tiller, cultivator (one who tills or cultivates)

   ager + -cola → agricola

3. worshipper, honourer (one who worships or honours)

   Jūnō + -cola → Jūnōnicola

First-declension noun.

• Spanish: -cola

• “-cola” on page 349/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

From Latin -cola, from the verbal root of colō (“to till, cultivate, inhabit”).

-cola m or f by sense (noun-forming suffix, plural -colas)
-cola m or f (adjective-forming suffix, masculine and feminine plural -colas)

1. cultivator, breeder; forms nouns and adjectives
2. inhabitant; forms nouns and adjectives

• “‒́cola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28