cultúr

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See also: cultur

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cultúr m (genitive singular cultúir, nominative plural cultúir)

  1. culture

Declension

Declension of cultúr (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cultúr cultúir
vocative a chultúir a chultúra
genitive cultúir cultúr
dative cultúr cultúir
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cultúr na cultúir
genitive an chultúir na gcultúr
dative leis an gcultúr
don chultúr 		leis na cultúir

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cultúr
radical lenition eclipsis
cultúr chultúr gcultúr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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