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colonia

See also: Colonia, colónia, colònia, colônia, Colónia, Colònia, and Colônia

Interlingua

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Noun

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colonia (plural colonias)

  1. colony

Italian

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. colony
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Etymology 2

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Short for acqua di Colonia, itself a calque of French eau de Cologne.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. cologne, eau de Cologne
    Synonym: acqua di Colonia

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ko.loˈni.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: co‧lo‧nì‧a

Noun

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colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. holding (farm)

Etymology 4

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Noun

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colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. resort
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

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Noun

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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

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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

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Descendants

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References

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  • “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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /koˈlonja/ [koˈlo.nja]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -onja
  • Syllabification: co‧lo‧nia

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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colonia f (plural colonias)

  1. colony
  2. (Mexico) neighbourhood
Usage notes
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  • 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

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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

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colonia f (plural colonias)

  1. eau de Cologne

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