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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of excolō.
Participle
excultus (feminine exculta, neuter excultum, superlative excultissimus); first/second-declension participle
- tended, cultivated
- improved, perfected
- 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)