colony: [16] Etymologically, a colony is a ‘settled land’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *qwel-, *qwol-, which signified ‘move around’ (it is the source of English cycle and wheel) and hence ‘move habitually in, settle in, inhabit’. One of the descendants of this base was Latin colere ‘inhabit, cultivate’. Thus someone who settled on a new piece of land and cultivated it was a colōnus, and the land he settled was his colōnia. (The German city of Cologne gets its name from Latin colōnia; in Roman times it was called Colōnia Agrippīna, the ‘settlement or colony of Agrippa’.) => cycle, wheel
colony (n.)
late 14c., "ancient Roman settlement outside Italy," from Latin colonia "settled land, farm, landed estate," from colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land," from colere "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "move around" (source of Latin -cola "inhabitant;" see cycle (n.)). Also used by the Romans to translate Greek apoikia "people from home." Modern application dates from 1540s.
例文
1. The newly-occupied Italian colony of Libya rose in revolt in 1914.
イタリアが新たに占領した植民地リビアでは1914年に反乱が起きた。
2.Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease.
このグループでは、この病気は異なる動物において異なる表現をしている。
3.the American colony in Paris
パリに居住する在米邦人
4.the former governor of the colony
この植民地の前総督
5.All the bees in the colony are genetically related.