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"agriculture" in seven languages

Meaningagriculture

Spanish

agricultura

/agɾikulˈtuɾa/

fem.learned

French

agriculture

/agʁikyltyʁ/

fem.learned

Italian

agricoltura

/agrikolˈtura/

fem.learned

Coltura 'cultivation' (after coltivare), not cultura 'culture'.

Portuguese

agricultura

/agɾikuwˈtuɾɐ/

fem.learned

Romanian

agricultură

/agrikulˈturə/

fem.learned

Catalan

agricultura

/əgɾikulˈtuɾə/

fem.learned

English

agriculture

/ˈægɹɪkʌltʃɚ/

from Latin/French · French agriculture, Latin AGRICULTŪRAM

English → ItalianagricultureagricolturaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

AGRICULTŪRAM‘tilling of the field (AGER 'field' + CULTŪRA)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

'Field-tilling' in Latin, borrowed by all four languages. Italian keeps culture and crops apart: cultura is culture, coltura (as in agricoltura) is a crop or cultivation.

English relatives: agrarian, culture, cultivate

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In a sentence

  • esLa agricultura consume mucha agua.
  • frL'agriculture consomme beaucoup d'eau.
  • itL'agricoltura consuma molta acqua.
  • ptA agricultura consome muita água.
  • roAgricultura consumă multă apă.
  • caL'agricultura consumeix molta aigua.
  • enAgriculture uses a lot of water.

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