excultus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of excolō.

Participle

excultus (feminine exculta, neuter excultum, superlative excultissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. tended, cultivated
  2. improved, perfected
  3. honoured

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • excultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • excultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • excultus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have attained to a high degree of culture: omni vita atque victu excultum atque expolitum esse (Brut. 25. 95)