cultura

See also: culturá, cultùra, and cultură

Aragonese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cultura”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/, [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Related terms

• cultural

 

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kulˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kulˈtu.ɾa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Derived terms

• contracultura
• subcultura

 

Related terms

• aculturar
• cultural

 

Further reading

• “cultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cultura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cultura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cultura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/, [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura

1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾɐ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

Related terms

• cultural

Further reading

• “cultura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Interlingua

Noun

cultura (plural culturas)

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

Related terms

• cultural

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cul‧tù‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural culture)

1. culture
2. learning, knowledge

Related terms

• coltura
• culturale

Further reading

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

Ladin

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Related terms

• cultural, culturel, culturèl

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kulˈtuː.ra/, [kʊɫ̪ˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.ra/, [kul̪ˈt̪uːrä]

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.

	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

• Asturian: cultura
• → Bulgarian: култура (kultura)
• Catalan: cultura
• → Czech: kultura
• → Danish: kultur
• Middle French: culture
  • → English: culture
• French: culture
  • → Turkish: kültür
• Galician: cultura
• → German: Kultur
• → Irish: cultúr
• Italian: cultura, coltura
• Ladino: kultura
• → Macedonian: култура (kultura)
• → Maltese: kultura
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kultur
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kultur
• Occitan: cultura
• → Polish: kultura
• Portuguese: cultura
• Romanian: cultură
• → Russian: культу́ра (kulʹtúra)
  • → Armenian: կուլտուրա (kultura)
  • → Georgian: კულტურა (ḳulṭura)
  • → Ingrian: kulttuura, kultuuri, kuljtuura
  • → Karelian: kulʹtura
  • → Yakut: култуура (kultuura)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kultúra/култу́ра
• Sicilian: curtura
• Spanish: cultura
  • → Basque: kultura
  • → Tagalog: kultura
• → Swedish: kultur

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)
    

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cultura.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture

Related terms

• cultural

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwˈtu.ɾa/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɫˈtu.ɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra
• Homophone: -cultura

• Audio:

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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

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cultura.

Derived terms

• aculturar
• -cultura

 

Related terms

• culto
• cultuar
• cultural

 

Romanian

Alternative forms

• култура (cultura) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

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

Further reading

• “cultura” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• 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

Hyponyms

• cultura de Hallstatt (“Hallstatt culture”)
• cultura de la cerámica cordada (“Corded Ware culture”)
• cultura de la cerámica del peine (“Comb Ceramic culture”)
• cultura de las ánforas globulares (“Globular Amphora culture”)
• cultura de Longshan (“Longshan culture”)
• cultura de los vasos de embudo (“Funnelbeaker culture”)
• cultura del vaso campaniforme (“Bell Beaker Culture”)
• cultura popular
• cultura yamna (“Yamnaya culture”)

 

Derived terms

• aculturar
• cultura de la violación
• cultura general
• cultureta
• culturizar
• la Ciudad de las Tres Culturas
• tener cultura alcohólica

 

Related terms

• contracultura
• culto
• cultural
• culturismo

 

Descendants

• → Basque: kultura
• → Chavacano: cultura
• → Tagalog: kultura

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

Further reading

• “cultura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28