Where does “ethnocultural” come from?
Ethnocultural derives from English cultural, which comes from English culture, from Latin cultura meaning "cultivation" or "tending," from Latin colo meaning "to cultivate" or "to dwell," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- meaning "to turn" or "to move around."
ethnocultural (English): Of or pertaining to the culture of an ethnic...
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- Of or pertaining to the culture of an ethnic...
Ancestry of “ethnocultural”, step by step
| 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 |