Where does “sériciculture” come from?
sériciculture (French) comes from French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
sériciculture (French): sericulture
Definitions
- sericulture
Ancestry of “sériciculture”, step by step
sériciculture traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French culture
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | culture | crop; culture |
| 2 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 3 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 4 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 6 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via Late Latin sericum
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | sericum | Chinese goods, especially silk; Chinese goods,... |
| 2 | Latin | sericus | Of or pertaining to the Seres or the Chinese;... |
| 3 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ικός | of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -κός | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |