English → Latin
“colony” in Latin
colōniaA colony, settlement; A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate; The people composing a colony, colonistscolōnusfarmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil; colonist, colonial, inhabitacollocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settlecolōnicusOf or pertaining to agriculture or husbandry.; Found upon any farm, common.; Of or pertaining to a colony, colonial.
The English word colony itself goes back to Latin colō, through colōnia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
colony
a number of persons (migrating to a place to cultivate the land, etc.), colonia: coloni: to send out a colony to a place, coloniam or colonos mittere in aliquem locum: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum: deductio coloniarum in aliquem agrum (the colonization).
The place itself, colonia: to establish a colony, coloniam condeie: at some place, coloniam in aliquo loco constituere, collocare: relating to a colony, colonicus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for colony?
- The usual Latin words for “colony” are colōnia, colōnus, collocō; also colōnicus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.