colonia
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
Related terms
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.loˈni.a/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: co‧lo‧nì‧a
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) 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
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
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
- 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, 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
- 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”).
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
Related terms
See also
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.
Further reading
- “colonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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