Where does “aculturar” come from?
aculturar (Spanish) comes from Catalan cultura, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
aculturar (Spanish): to acculture
Definitions
- to acculture
Ancestry of “aculturar”, step by step
aculturar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan cultura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | cultura | culture |
| 2 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 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 |
via Portuguese cultura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | cultura | culture |
via Spanish cultura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | cultura | culture |