cultura

See also: culturá, cultùra, and cultură

Aragonese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture

References

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

  1. culture

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kulˈtu.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [kulˈtu.ɾa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

  1. culture

Derived terms

Further reading

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:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

cultura (plural culturas)

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

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

Further reading

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

Ladin

Pronunciation

Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)

  1. culture

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.

singular plural
nominative cultūra cultūrae
genitive cultūrae cultūrārum
dative cultūrae cultūrīs
accusative cultūram cultūrās
ablative cultūrā cultūrīs
vocative cultūra cultūrae

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

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cultura.

Pronunciation

Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)

  1. culture

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

  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra
  • Homophone: -cultura
  • Audio:(file)

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

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

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

  1. culture

Further reading

  • cultura”, in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda [Online Dictionary of the Sardinian Language and Culture] (in Sardinian, Italian, and English), Autonomous Region of Sardinia [Sardinian: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna]

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
  • 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
  2. knowledge
    Synonyms: saber, instrucción
  3. erudition
    Synonyms: erudición, ilustración
  4. (rare) cultivation (of plants)
  5. (colloquial) politeness, respect
    Synonyms: cortesía, respeto
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
Descendants

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