# cultura
## Aragonese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kulˈtuɾa/
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)
* culture

### References

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

## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)
* culture

#### Related terms

* cultural

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cultūra.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)
* culture

#### Derived terms

* contracultura
* subcultura

#### Related terms

* aculturar
* cultural

### Further reading

* “cultura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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: /kulˈtuɾa/, [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

cultura
* culture (tradition of values in human societies)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin cultūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kulˈtuɾa/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾɐ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)
* 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)
* culture (cultural elements particular to a group)
* culture (microbial growth)

#### Related terms

* cultural

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cultūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kulˈtu.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: cul‧tù‧ra

### Noun

cultura f (plural culture)
* culture
* learning, knowledge

#### Related terms

* coltura
* culturale

### Further reading

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

## Ladin
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

cultura f (plural cultures)
* culture

#### Related terms

* cultural, culturel, culturèl

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kulˈtuː.ra/, [kʊɫ̪ˈt̪uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kulˈtu.ra/, [kul̪ˈt̪uːrä]

### Noun

cultūra f (genitive cultūrae); first declension
* care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry
    Synonyms: cūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla
* culture, cultivation
* (Medieval Latin) adoration, veneration

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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
** → 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, London: Macmillan and Co. mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin cultura.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)
* 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: /kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kuwˈtu.ɾa/ [kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾa]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kulˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɫˈtu.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra
* Homophone: -cultura
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cultura f (plural culturas)
* culture
** arts, customs and habits that characterise a group of people
** a plant growing practice
    Synonyms: cultivo, plantação
** 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: /kulˈtura/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ra

### Noun

cultura f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of cultură

## Sardinian
### Noun

cultura f
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* culture

### Further reading

* “cultura” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* culture
* knowledge
    Synonyms: saber, instrucción
* erudition
    Synonyms: erudición, ilustración
* (rare) cultivation (of plants)
* (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
* inflection of culturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** 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], 2024 December 10