# colonia
## Interlingua
### Noun

colonia (plural colonias)
* colony

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlɔ.nja/
* Rhymes: -ɔnja
* Hyphenation: co‧lò‧nia

#### Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)
* colony

##### Related terms

* coloniale
* colonialismo
* colonialista
* colonizzare

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlɔ.nja/
* Rhymes: -ɔnja
* Hyphenation: co‧lò‧nia

#### Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)
* cologne, eau de Cologne
    Synonym: acqua di Colonia

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ko.loˈni.a/
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: co‧lo‧nì‧a

#### Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)
* holding (farm)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)
* resort

##### Related terms

* colonato
* colonico
* colono
* colonia marina

### Anagrams

* Nicolao, caolino

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /koˈloː.ni.a/, [kɔˈɫ̪oːniä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.

#### Derived terms

* colōnārius
* Colōnia Agrippīna
* colōniārius

#### Related terms

* agricola
* colō
* colōna
* colōnātus
* colōnicus
* colōnus
* culta
* cultē
* cultiō
* cultor
* cultūra
* cultus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: colònia
* Czech: kolonie
* Danish: koloni
* Dutch: kolonie
** Afrikaans: kolonie
** → Indonesian: koloni
* English: colony
** Tok Pisin: koloni
** → Tokelauan: kolone
* French: colonie
** → Ottoman Turkish: قولونی (koloni)
*** Turkish: koloni
* 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, 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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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”).

#### Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)
* colony
* (Mexico) neighbourhood

##### 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

* Colonia Le Barón, Colonia Lebarón
* colonia penal
* coloniaje
* colonial
* colonialismo
* colonialista
* colonizar

##### Related terms

* colono

##### See also

* fraccionamiento
* urbanización
* barrio

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)
* eau de Cologne

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10