Where does “rizicultor” come from?
rizicultor (Romanian) comes from French riziculteur, from French riziculture, from French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo — to turn.
rizicultor (Romanian): rice grower
Definitions
- rice grower
Ancestry of “rizicultor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | riziculteur | rice grower, rice farmer |
| 2 | French | riziculture | rice growing |
| 3 | French | culture | crop; culture |
| 4 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 5 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 6 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 8 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |