Where does “petroculture” come from?

petroculture (English) comes from English culture, from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.

petroculture (English): A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals

Definitions

  1. A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals

Ancestry of “petroculture”, step by step

petroculture traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via English culture

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcultureThe arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and...
2Middle Frenchculturecultivation; culture
3Latincultūracare, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry
4Latincultustilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;...
5Latincoleresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
6LatincoloI till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,...
7Latinquelo
8Proto-Italickʷelōto inhabit
9Proto-Indo-Europeankʷéleti
10Proto-Indo-Europeankʷel-to turn

via English Petro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPetroIn Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of uncertain...
2Koine GreekΠέτρος
3Ancient GreekΠέτροςPeter
4Ancient Greekπέτροςrock, stone, boulder; type of reed

via English agriculture

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishagricultureThe art or science of cultivating the ground,...
2Middle Englishagriculture
Every word from Proto-Indo-European kʷel-Every word from Proto-Indo-European kʷéletiEvery word from Proto-Italic kʷelō
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