Where does “cultural” come from?
cultural (Romanian) comes from French culturel, from French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
cultural (Romanian): cultural
Ancestry of “cultural”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | culturel | cultural |
| 2 | French | culture | crop; culture |
| 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 |
Words derived from “cultural”