Where does “counterculture” come from?
Counterculture derives from English counter- plus culture, which comes from Middle French culture, from Latin cultura, the practice of tilling or cultivating, from colo, to inhabit or tend.
counterculture (English): Any culture whose values and lifestyles are...
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- Any culture whose values and lifestyles are...
Ancestry of “counterculture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | culture | The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and... |
| 2 | Middle French | culture | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |