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coloniae

coloniae is a Latin form of colonia, meaning “colony, settlement”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 78 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 61: … nestissimorum hominum, intellegere potestis, qui adsunt, laborant, hunc patronum, defensorem, custodem illius coloniae si in omni fortuna atque omni honore incolumem habere non potuerunt, in hoc tamen casu in quo adflictus iacet …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.4.19: … s adierunt, dicionis suae fecit. Et, si famae libet credere, haec gens litteras prima aut docuit aut didicit. Coloniae certe eius paene orbe toto diffusae sunt: Carthago in Africa, in Boeotia Thebae, Gades ad Oceanum.

All forms of colonia (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.