Where does “apicoltura” come from?
apicoltura (Italian) comes from Italian coltura, 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.
apicoltura (Italian): beekeeping
Definitions
- beekeeping
Ancestry of “apicoltura”, step by step
apicoltura traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian coltura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | coltura | cultivation; 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 Italian Ape
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | Ape | a tricycle scooter with a cab for the driver and a pickup truck body over the rear wheels; used as a light delivery van and for small-scale agricultural tasks |
| 2 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 4 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 5 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |