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

• 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
• Syllabification: 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 (Catalonia):

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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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cultura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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, 2012–2025

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 colō (“to till, cultivate”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊɫˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kulˈtuː.ra]

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

Derived terms

• agricultūra
• avicultūra

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
  • Tok Pisin: kalsa
  • → 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 [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):

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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
   • 1999 July 24, Vicente Verdú, “El porno”, in El País‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 September 2025:

     A la cultura falocrática de consumo sigue hoy el progresivo despiece del cuerpo masculino para el disfrute de las hembras, tal como hicieron los machos hasta ahora troceando el cuerpo de la mujer.

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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

• 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024