One way to hold colonize: a group arrives in a place that already belongs to someone, settles down, spreads out, and ends up running it. Three actions live inside that picture — coming in from outside, staying and multiplying, and taking charge. Each sense leans on a different part of it. The taking-charge part is the heaviest, and it is why the word so often carries a complaint.
From the word’s history
The word runs back through colony to Latin colonus, a farmer or settler, and colonia, the place where settlers live. The ending -ize means to make into. So the shape of the word is: to make a place into a settlers' place.
這個字往回走是 colony（殖民地），再往回是拉丁文 colōnus（耕種、定居的人）和 colōnia（移居者住的地方）。字尾 -ize 的意思是「使…變成」。所以字面就是「把一塊地方變成移居者的地盤」，跟今天的核心畫面正好對得上。
Wiktionary etymology tree supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:494113846:28297): Latin colō > colōnus > colōnia > English colony; suffix -ize via Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω, Late Latin -izō.
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