colonia

colonia (plural colonias)

1. colony

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

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

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. colony

• coloniale
• colonialismo
• colonialista
• colonizzare

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

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

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. cologne, eau de Cologne

   Synonym: acqua di Colonia

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

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. holding (farm)

colonia f (plural colonie)

1. resort

• colonato
• colonico
• colono
• colonia marina

• Nicolao, caolino

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlɔː.ni.a]

colōnia f (genitive colōniae); first declension

1. A colony, settlement.
2. A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate.
3. (metonymic) The people composing a colony, colonists.

First-declension noun.

• colōnārius
• Colōnia Agrippīna
• colōniārius

• “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

colonia

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of colonie

• IPA^(key): /koˈlonja/ [koˈlo.nja]

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• Rhymes: -onja
• Syllabification: co‧lo‧nia

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

colonia f (plural colonias)

1. colony
2. (Mexico) neighbourhood

• 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).

• fraccionamiento
• urbanización
• barrio

From agua de Colonia, from French eau de Cologne, ultimately from Latin Colōnia Claudia Āra Agrippīnēnsium, Cologne, the current city in Germany, and cognate of English colony.

colonia f (plural colonias)

1. eau de Cologne

• “colonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024