Where does “cultural” come from?
Cultural derives from English culture, from Latin cultura meaning tilling or cultivation, from Latin colo meaning to cultivate or inhabit, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- meaning to turn or move around.
cultural (English): Pertaining to culture
Definitions
- Pertaining to culture
Ancestry of “cultural”, 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 |
Words derived from “cultural”
- culturally
- sociocultural
- intercultural
- subcultural
- transcultural
- ethnocultural
- culturalist
- culturalism
- biocultural
- intracultural
- socioculturally
- psychocultural
- geocultural
- interculturalism
- interculturality
- technocultural
- interculturally
- acultural
- ecocultural
- metacultural
- culturalization
- noncultural
- pluricultural
- pancultural