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==Etymology== The term ''colonization'' is derived from the Latin words {{lang|la|colere}} ("to cultivate, to till"),<ref name="OED">{{cite book|title=Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) |year= 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> {{lang|la|colonia}} ("a landed estate", "a farm") and {{lang|la|colonus}} ("a tiller of the soil", "a farmer"),<ref name="Lewis79">{{cite book|title=A Latin Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/latindictionaryf00lewi |author1=Charlton T. Lewis |author2=Charles Scott |year= 1879|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-864201-5 }}</ref> then by extension "to inhabit".<ref name="Steele03">{{cite book|title=The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes |author1=Marcy Rockman |author2=James Steele |year= 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-415-25606-2}}</ref> Someone who engages in colonization, i.e. the agent noun, is referred to as a ''colonizer'', while the person who gets colonized, i.e. the object of the agent noun or absolutive, is referred to as a ''colonizee'',<ref>Riordan, John P. STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES, 2008.</ref> ''colonisee'' or the ''colonised''.<ref>Freeman, Luke. "Lesley A. Sharp. The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvii+ 377 pp. Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $27.50. Paper." African Studies Review 46.2 (2003): 106-108.</ref>
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