cultura

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

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

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cultura”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

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

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kulˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kulˈtu.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

• “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.

Inherited from Spanish cultura, from Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/, [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

cultura

1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

From Latin cultūra.

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾɐ]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture (tradition of values in human societies)

• cultural

• “cultura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

cultura (plural culturas)

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

• cultural

From Latin cultūra.

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cul‧tù‧ra

cultura f (plural culture)

1. culture
2. learning, knowledge

• coltura
• culturale

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

cultura f (plural cultures)

1. culture

• cultural, culturel, culturèl

From cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“I till, cultivate”).

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

cultūra f (genitive cultūrae); first declension

1. care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry

   Synonyms: cūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla

2. culture, cultivation
3. (Medieval Latin) adoration, veneration

First-declension noun.

• “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)
    

From Latin cultura.

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cultura f (plural culturas)

1. culture

• cultural

Borrowed from Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, to cultivate”).

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra
• Homophone: -cultura

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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

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cultura.

• култура (cultura) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtura/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

cultura f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cultură

cultura f

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1. culture

• “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]

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ra

From Latin cultūra (“culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“to till, cultivate”).

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

• → Basque: kultura
• → Chavacano: cultura
• → Tagalog: kultura

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cultura

1. inflection of culturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “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