cultura
Aragonese
Etymology
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Noun
cultura f (plural culturas)
- culture
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cultura”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/, [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
Noun
cultura f (plural cultures)
- culture
Related terms
- cultural
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin cultura.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /kulˈtu.ɾə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kulˈtu.ɾa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uɾa
Noun
cultura f (plural cultures)
- culture
Derived terms
- contracultura
- subcultura
Related terms
- aculturar
- cultural
Further reading
- “cultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cultura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “cultura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cultura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chavacano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cultura, from Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).
Noun
cultura
- culture (tradition of values in human societies)
Galician
Etymology
From Latin cultura.
Noun
cultura f (plural culturas)
- culture (tradition of values in human societies)
Related terms
- cultural
Further reading
- “cultura” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua
Noun
cultura (plural culturas)
- culture (cultural elements particular to a group)
- culture (microbial growth)
Related terms
- cultural
Italian
Etymology
From Latin cultura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kulˈtu.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: cul‧tù‧ra
Noun
cultura f (plural culture)
- culture
- learning, knowledge
Related terms
- coltura
- culturale
Further reading
- cultura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Ladin
Noun
cultura f (plural cultures)
- culture
Related terms
- cultural, culturel, culturèl
Latin
Etymology
From cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kulˈtuː.ra/, [kʊɫ̪ˈt̪uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kulˈtu.ra/, [kul̪ˈt̪uːrä]
Noun
cultūra f (genitive cultūrae); first declension
- care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry
- Synonyms: cūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla
- culture, cultivation
- (Medieval Latin) adoration, veneration
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cultūra | cultūrae |
Genitive | cultūrae | cultūrārum |
Dative | cultūrae | cultūrīs |
Accusative | cultūram | cultūrās |
Ablative | cultūrā | cultūrīs |
Vocative | cultūra | cultūrae |
Related terms
- agricola
- colō
- colōna
- colōnārius
- colōnātus
- colōnia
- colōniārius
- colōnicus
- colōnus
- culta
- cultē
- cultiō
- cultor
- cultus
Descendants
- Asturian: cultura
- → Bulgarian: култура (kultura)
- Catalan: cultura
- → Czech: kultura
- → Danish: kultur
- Middle French: culture
- → English: culture
- French: culture
- → Turkish: kültür
- Galician: cultura
- → German: Kultur
- → Irish: cultúr
- Italian: cultura, coltura
- Ladino: kultura
- → Macedonian: култура (kultura)
- → Maltese: kultura
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kultur
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kultur
- Occitan: cultura
- → Polish: kultura
- Portuguese: cultura
- Romanian: cultură
- → Russian: культу́ра (kulʹtúra)
- → Armenian: կուլտուրա (kultura)
- → Georgian: კულტურა (ḳulṭura)
- → Karelian: kulʹtura
- → Yakut: култуура (kultuura)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kultúra/култу́ра
- Sicilian: curtura
- Spanish: cultura
- → Basque: kultura
- → Tagalog: kultura
- → Swedish: kultur
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
- mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin cultura.
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Noun
cultura f (plural culturas)
- culture
Related terms
- cultural
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, to cultivate”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kuwˈtu.ɾa/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾa]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kulˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɫˈtu.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra
- Homophone: -cultura
Audio (file)
Noun
cultura f (plural culturas)
- culture
- arts, customs and habits that characterise a group of people
- a plant growing practice
- Synonyms: cultivo, plantação
- a breeding practice
- Synonym: criação
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cultura.
Derived terms
- aculturar
- -cultura
Related terms
- culto
- cultuar
- cultural
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kulˈtura]
Noun
cultura f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of cultură
Sardinian
Noun
cultura f (needs inflection)
- culture
Further reading
- “cultura” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
Audio (Latin America) (file) - Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ra
Etymology 1
From Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, cultivate”).
Noun
cultura f (plural culturas)
- culture
Hyponyms
- cultura de Hallstatt (“Hallstatt culture”)
- cultura de la cerámica cordada (“Corded Ware culture”)
- cultura de la cerámica del peine (“Comb Ceramic culture”)
- cultura de las ánforas globulares (“Globular Amphora culture”)
- cultura de Longshan (“Longshan culture”)
- cultura de los vasos de embudo (“Funnelbeaker culture”)
- cultura del vaso campaniforme (“Bell Beaker Culture”)
- cultura popular
- cultura yamna (“Yamnaya culture”)
Derived terms
- aculturar
- cultureta
- culturizar
- tener cultura alcohólica
Related terms
- contracultura
- culto
- cultural
- culturismo
Descendants
- → Basque: kultura
- → Chavacano: cultura
- → Tagalog: kultura
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cultura
- inflection of culturar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cultura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014