acculture

See also: acculturé

English

WOTD – 6 February 2012

Etymology

Either ac- +‎ culture or a back-formation from acculturation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/

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Verb

acculture (third-person singular simple present accultures, present participle acculturing, simple past and past participle accultured)

1. To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant

   I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.

Derived terms

• unaccultured

 

Related terms

• acculturation

Translations

familiarize oneself with a new culture

• Catalan: aculturar (ca)
• Finnish: kotiutua (fi), kotoutua, akkulturoitua
• French: acculturer (fr)
• German: akkulturieren (de)
• Portuguese: aculturar-se
• Russian: адапти́роваться (ru) (adaptírovatʹsja), интегри́роваться (ru) (integrírovatʹsja)
• Spanish: aculturar (es)

French

Pronunciation

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• Homophones: acculturent, accultures

Verb

acculture

1. inflection of acculturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Participle

accultūre

1. vocative masculine singular of accultūrus