cultura

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See also: culturá, cultùra, and cultură

Aragonese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture

References

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/,
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

  1. culture

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

  1. culture

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Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited 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)

Galician

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Etymology

From Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

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Interlingua

Noun

cultura (plural culturas)

  1. culture (cultural elements particular to a group)
  2. culture (microbial growth)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtu.ra/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tù‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural culture)

  1. culture
  2. learning, knowledge

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Further reading

  • cultura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Ladin

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Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

  1. culture

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

cultūra f (genitive cultūrae); first declension

  1. care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry
    Synonyms: cūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla
  2. culture, cultivation
  3. (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

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Descendants

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)

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cultura.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Béarn)(file)

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture
    1. arts, customs and habits that characterise a group of people
    2. a plant growing practice
      Synonyms: cultivo, plantação
    3. a breeding practice
      Synonym: criação

Quotations

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Romanian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtura/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cultură

Sardinian

Noun

cultura f

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  1. culture

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/
  • Audio (Colombia):(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)

  1. culture
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cultura

  1. inflection of culturar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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