Where does “culturalism” come from?
Culturalism comes from English culture, which derives from Latin cultura meaning tilling or cultivation, from Latin colo meaning to tend or cultivate, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- meaning to turn or move around.
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Ancestry of “culturalism”, step by step
culturalism traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cultural
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cultural | Pertaining to culture |
| 2 | English | culture | The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and... |
| 3 | Middle French | culture | cultivation; culture |
| 4 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 5 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 6 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 8 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via French culturalisme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | culturalisme | culturalism |
| 2 | French | culturel | cultural |
| 3 | French | -el | To make an adjectival form of a noun; -al |
| 4 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |