Translation
colony
Word origin
From Latin colonia, a settlement of colonists, from colonus, a farmer or settler, from colere, to cultivate and so to inhabit. The Roman sense was agricultural before it was imperial: a colonia was somewhere your veterans went to farm.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- colonus
- English cognates
- colony, cultivate, agriculture
Examples
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The island was a colony for a hundred years.
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The people of the colony wanted to be free.
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Bees live in a large colony.
Mind the near pair. Kolono, one letter shorter, is a
column or a pillar, and it is not related to this word at all. comes
from Latin columna, a standing shaft; comes from colere, to till
the soil. A settlement and a pillar have nothing in common but four letters,
and Esperanto keeps the pair distinct where English hides the difference behind
colon-.
The accusative is where the two actually collide in reading: against
. Slow down for the -i-.
Derivations follow the usual pattern. o is a colonist, built with the
same -an- membership suffix as ; kolonia is colonial; i
is to colonise a place and koloniismo the ideology behind it. The biological
sense, a colony of bees or bacteria, uses the same word, exactly as English
does.
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