Where does “viticultor” come from?
viticultor (Romanian) comes from French viticulteur, from French viticulture, from Latin cultura, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
viticultor (Romanian): winegrower
Ancestry of “viticultor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | viticulteur | winegrower; viticulturist |
| 2 | French | viticulture | viticulture |
| 3 | Latin | cultura | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage,... |
| 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 |