Colonia Agrippina

Latin

Etymology

Shortened form of the full name Colōnia Claudia Āra Agrippīnēnsium.

Proper noun

Colōnia Agrippīna f sg (genitive Colōniae Agrippīnae); first declension

1. Cologne, Agrippine Colony; city on the Rhine River in Germany, founded by Agrippina, the mother of the Roman emperor Nero.

Declension

First-declension noun with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Colōnia Agrippīna
genitive	Colōniae Agrippīnae
dative	Colōniae Agrippīnae
accusative	Colōniam Agrippīnam
ablative	Colōniā Agrippīnā
vocative	Colōnia Agrippīna
locative	Colōniae Agrippīnae

Related terms

• colōnia
• Agrippīna

Descendants

• Old French: Coloigne, Cologne, Coulongne
  • French: Cologne
  • → Middle English: Coloyne, Colayne, Coleyn, Coleyne, colyn, Culane
    • English: Cologne (pronunciation remodelled after modern French)
      • →? Welsh: Cwlen
    • Middle Welsh: Cwlwyn
• → Catalan: Colònia
• → Greek: Κολωνία (Kolonía)
• → Old High German: *Kolona
  • Middle High German: Kölne, Coelne, Collen
    • Central Franconian: Kölle
    • German: Köln, Cöln (obsolete since 1919), Coellen, Cöllen, Cölln (obsolete)
      • → Hungarian: Köln
      • → Icelandic: Köln
      • → Russian: Кёльн (Kjolʹn)
• → Spanish: Colonia