cultivar

Blend of cultivated +‎ variety or cultigen +‎ variety. Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1923.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌltɪvɑɹ/

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cultivar (plural cultivars)

1. A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. [from 1923]

• (cultivated variety of plant): cultigen, cultivar group, convariety

• ICNCP

• curvital

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cultīvāre (“to till, cultivate”), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, cultivate”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kul.tiˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kul.tiˈva]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kul.tiˈvaɾ]

cultivar (first-person singular present cultivo, first-person singular preterite cultiví, past participle cultivat)

1. (agriculture) to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)

   Synonym: conrear

• cultivable
• cultivador

• cultiu

cultivar f (plural cultivars)

1. cultivar (a cultivated variety of a plant species)

• “cultivar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cultivar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cultivar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cultivar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from English cultivar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏl.tiˌvɑr/

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• Hyphenation: cul‧ti‧var

cultivar m (plural cultivars)

1. cultivar

• variëteit

cultivar

1. to cultivate

• Rhymes: -aɾ, (Brazil, with r-droppping) -a
• Hyphenation: cul‧ti‧var

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cultīvāre (“to till, cultivate”), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, to cultivate”). Doublet of culto.

cultivar (first-person singular present cultivo, first-person singular preterite cultivei, past participle cultivado)

1. (transitive, agriculture) to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)
2. (transitive, figurative) to cultivate; to nurture
3. (transitive, reflexive, figurative) to perfect; to develop; to thrive

   Synonym: desenvolver

• cultivo

Borrowed from English cultivar.

cultivar m (plural cultivares)

1. (botany) cultivar

• “cultivar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cultīvāre (“to till, cultivate”), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, cultivate”).

• IPA^(key): /kultiˈbaɾ/ [kul̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cul‧ti‧var

cultivar (first-person singular present cultivo, first-person singular preterite cultivé, past participle cultivado)

1. (agriculture) to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)

cultivar m (plural cultivares)

1. (botany, agriculture) cultivar

• “cultivar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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