Where does “decolonizzare” come from?
decolonizzare (Italian) comes from Italian Colonia, from French Cologne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
decolonizzare (Italian): to decolonize
Definitions
- to decolonize
Ancestry of “decolonizzare”, step by step
decolonizzare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian Colonia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | Colonia | colony |
| 2 | French | Cologne | — |
| 3 | Old French | Cologne | — |
| 4 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 5 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 6 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 7 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |