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