Where does “kolonizzazzjoni” come from?
kolonizzazzjoni (Maltese) comes from Italian colonizzazione, from Italian colonizzare, from Italian Colonia, from French Cologne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō — to turn.
kolonizzazzjoni (Maltese): colonization
Definitions
- colonization
Ancestry of “kolonizzazzjoni”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | colonizzazione | colonization |
| 2 | Italian | colonizzare | to colonize, settle |
| 3 | Italian | Colonia | colony |
| 4 | French | Cologne | — |
| 5 | Old French | Cologne | — |
| 6 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 7 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 8 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 9 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |