Where does “colonial” come from?

Colonial derives from English colony, from Latin colonus meaning farmer or settler, from Latin colo meaning to cultivate, from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- meaning to turn or move around.

colonial (English): Of or pertaining to a colony; Of or pertaining to...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a colony; Of or pertaining to...

Ancestry of “colonial”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-álOf or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also
2Middle English-al
3Old French-alsuffix used to form adjectives from nouns
4Latin-ālis
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “colonial

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis
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