Adjective: colonial
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more colonial |
| Superlative | most colonial |
Sample Sentences
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From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away. [2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 52:]
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India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world. [2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN:]
Adjectives inflected like colonial
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti
5. Proto-Italic *kʷelō
6. Latin colō
7. Latin colōnus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
9. Proto-Italic *-ijos
10. Proto-Italic *-ios
11. Old Latin -ios
12. Latin -ius
13. Latin -ia
14. Latin colōniader.
15. Middle English colane
16. English colony
17. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
18. Proto-Indo-European *-is
19. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
20. Proto-Italic *-ālis
21. Latin -ālisbor.
22. Old French -albor.
23. ▲
24. Latin -ālis
25. Old French -elbor.
26. ▲
27. Latin -ālisbor.
28. Middle English -al
29. English -al
30. English colonial
31. From colony + -al.
Verbs referencing "colonial"
Dutch Adjectives
koloniaal.