Etymology of the English word colonial
the English word
colonialderived from the English word
colonyderived from the Latin word
colonia (colony, settlement or people thereof; colony of bees; land possession; landed estate, farm)
derived from the Latin word
colonus (farmer, cultivator, tiller)
derived from the Late Latin word
colere (honor, cherish, worship; live in , inhabit; till)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*kʷel-using the English suffix
-alderived from the Latin suffix
-alisDerivations in English
anticolonial,
colonialism,
coloniality,
colonialization,
colonialize,
intercolonial,
precolonial,
postcolonialUsage
Word found in Modern English
