Cologne

Meaning

Proper Noun

• largest city North Rhine-Westphalia (state) in northwestern Germany (country), on the Rhine River.
• city/and/town Minnesota (state) USA (country).

Origin

• From French Cologne, from Latin Colōnia Agrippīna ("Agrippine Colony"), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia comes from colōnus, from colō, from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ("to move; to turn (around)").