Cologne

Cologne

See also: cologne

English

Alternative forms

• Collen, Cologn (obsolete)
• Köln (rare in English)

Etymology

From French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈloʊn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -oʊn

Proper noun

Cologne

1. The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany, on the Rhine River.
2. A city and town in Minnesota, United States.

Derived terms

• Cologner

Translations

city in Germany

Arabic: كُولُونْيَا‎ f (kulūnyā) Hijazi Arabic: كلونيا‎ f (kulōnya) Armenian: Քյոլն (Kʿyoln) Belarusian: Кёльн m (Kjolʹn) Bulgarian: Кьолн (bg) m (Kjoln) Catalan: Colònia (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 科隆 (fo1 lung4) Mandarin: 科隆 (zh) (Kēlóng) Czech: Kolín nad Rýnem m Danish: Köln, Køln Dutch: Keulen (nl) n Esperanto: Kolonjo Estonian: Köln (et) Farefare: Kolon, Kɔlɔn Faroese: Køln f Finnish: Köln (fi) French: Cologne (fr) f Old French: Coloigne Galician: Colonia (gl) German: Köln (de) n Central Franconian: Kölle f (Kölsch) Greek: Κολωνία (el) f (Kolonía) Hebrew: קלן‎ (Keln) Hungarian: Köln (hu) Icelandic: Köln f, Kolni f (archaic) Interlingua: Colonia Italian: Colonia (it) f Japanese: ケルン (Kerun) Korean: 쾰른 (ko) (Koelleun) Kyrgyz: Көлн (Köln) Latin: Colōnia Agrippīna f Macedonian: Келн m (Keln) Marathi: कोलोन n (kolon) Norwegian: Bokmål: Köln (no) Nynorsk: Köln Old Norse: Kolni f Persian: کلن‎ (fa) (koln) Polish: Kolonia (pl) f Portuguese: Colónia (pt) f (Portugal), Colônia (pt) f (Brazil), Köln f Russian: Кёльн (ru) m (Kjolʹn) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Келн m Roman: Köln (sh) m Slovak: Kolín nad Rýnom m Spanish: Colonia (es) f Swedish: Köln (sv) c Thai: โคโลญ (th) (koo-loon) Turkish: Köln (tr) Ukrainian: Кельн m (Kelʹn) Welsh: Cwlen f Yiddish: קעלן‎ n (keln)

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French

Etymology

From Latin colōnia (“colony”) in Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔɲ/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Cologne f

1. Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)

Derived terms

• eau de Cologne

Descendants

• → English: Cologne