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Cologne

/kɔ.lɔɲ/

proper noun/kɔ.lɔɲ/

Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)

Related: eau de Cologne

Inherited from Old French Cologne, Coloigne, from Latin colōnia (“colony”) in Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero.