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)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| *kʷel- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | to move; to turn (around) |
| *quelo | Latin (lat) | |
| colare | Latin (lat) | till, cultivate, worship |
| colonus | Latin (lat) | Colonist, colonial, inhabitant. Farmer. |
| colonia | Latin (lat) | (metonymy) The people composing a colony, colonists.. A colony, settlement.. A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate. |
| colony | English (en) | (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 [...] |