Where does “colonia” come from?
colonia (Italian) comes from French Cologne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
colonia (Italian): colony; cologne, eau de Cologne; holding
Definitions
- colony; cologne, eau de Cologne; holding
Ancestry of “colonia”, step by step
colonia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French Cologne
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Cologne | — |
| 2 | Old French | Cologne | — |
| 3 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 4 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 5 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 6 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |