cultura

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Etymology

From Latin cultura.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Further reading

• “cultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cultura, from Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).

Noun

cultura

1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

Noun

cultura (plural culturas)

1. culture

Pronunciation

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Noun

cultura f (plural culture)

1. culture
2. learning, knowledge

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Etymology

From cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kulˈtuː.ra/, [kʊɫˈtuː.ra]

Noun

cultūra f (genitive cultūrae); first declension

1. care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry
2. culture, cultivation
3. vocative singular of cultūra

cultūrā

1. ablative singular of cultūra

References

• cultura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cultura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cultura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cultura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)
    

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).

Pronunciation

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• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɫˈtuɾɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuw.ˈtu.ɾɐ/

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture (arts, customs and habits that characterise a group of people)
2. culture; cultivation (the practice of growing plants)

   Synonyms: cultivo, plantação

3. culture (a growth of bacteria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kulˈtura]

Noun

cultura f

1. definite singular nominative form of cultură.
2. definite singular accusative form of cultură.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/, [kul̪ˈt̪uɾa]

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Etymology 1

From Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Further reading

• “cultura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.