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English word colony comes from Latin colonia (settlement, colony) from colonus (farmer, inhabitant) from colare (till, cultivate, worship), which ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (move, turn around)
*kʷel- (Proto-Indo-European)
to move; to turn (around)
*quelo (Latin)
colare (Latin)
till, cultivate, worship
colonus (Latin)
Colonist, colonial, inhabitant. Farmer.
colonia (Latin)
(metonymy) The people composing a colony, colonists.. A colony, settlement.. A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate.
colony (English)
(India) An apartment complex.. A collective noun for rabbits.. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin. Governmental unit [...]