Where does “subculture” come from?
subculture (Italian) comes from Italian subcultura, from Italian cultura, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
subculture (Italian): plural of subcultura
Ancestry of “subculture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | subcultura | subculture |
| 2 | Italian | cultura | culture; learning, knowledge |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | — |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |