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colonization

noun
/kɔlənɪˈzɛjʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English colonize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English colonization From colonize + -ation.

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻
  2. derived from colōnia
  3. inherited from colane
  4. suffixed as colonize — “colony + ize”
  5. suffixed as colonization — “colonize + ation”

Definitions

  1. The process of establishing a colony.

  2. The process of colonizing or taking over.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticolonization, biocolonization, Cocacolonization, cocolonization, colonizational, colonizationism, colonizationist, decolonization, dyscolonization, endocolonization, hypercolonization, monocolonization, neocolonization, pseudocolonization, recolonization

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for colonization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA