Etymology of the French word colonisation
the French word
colonisationderived from the English word
colonizationderived from the English word
colonizederived 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
-izederived from the Old French suffix
-iserderived from the Latin suffix
-izarederived from the Greek suffix
-izein, -ίζειν
Date
The earliest known usage of colonisation in French dates from the 18th century.
Derivations in French
décolonisation
