cultura

See also: culturá, cultură, and -cultura

Asturian

Noun

cultura f ‎(plural cultures)

1. culture

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Catalan

Noun

cultura f ‎(plural cultures)

1. culture

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Interlingua

Noun

cultura ‎(plural culturas)

1. culture

Related terms

• cultural

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Italian

Pronunciation

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Noun

cultura f ‎(plural culture)

1. culture
2. learning, knowledge

Related terms

• culturale

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Ladin

Noun

cultura f ‎(plural [please provide])

1. culture

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kulˈtuː.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

Inflection

First declension.

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

• Catalan: cultura
• English: culture
• French: culture

• German: Kultur
• Portuguese: cultura
• Russian: культу́ра ‎(kul'túra)
• Spanish: cultura

References

• cultura in Charlton T. Lewis & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)
    

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɫˈtuɾɐ/

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture (arts, customs and habits)
2. Action or way of cultivating the land of plants.

   culture of flowers

3. Development of certain microbial species.

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:cultura.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kulˈtura]

Noun

cultura f

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Latin America)

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Noun

cultura f ‎(plural culturas)

1. culture.

Related terms

• culto
• culturizar

Verb

cultura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of culturar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of culturar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of culturar.