inculto
Latin
Adjective
incultō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of incultus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin incultus. By surface analysis, in- + culto.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈkuw.tu/ [ĩˈkuʊ̯.tu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈkuw.to/ [ĩˈkuʊ̯.to]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩˈkul.tu/ [ĩˈkuɫ.tu]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -ultu, (Brazil) -uwtu
- Hyphenation: in‧cul‧to
Adjective
inculto (feminine inculta, masculine plural incultos, feminine plural incultas)
- (of land) uncultivated (not cultivated)
- (of a person) uncultivated; unrefined (lacking art or knowledge)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈkulto/ [ĩŋˈkul̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ulto
- Syllabification: in‧cul‧to
Adjective
inculto (feminine inculta, masculine plural incultos, feminine plural incultas)
- uncultivated, uncivilized
- ignorant
- Synonym: ignorante
Further reading
- “inculto”, 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