cultus

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌl.təs/

Noun

cultus (plural cultuses)

  1. Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 124:
      Among the rituals which members of their family had inaugurated in other states of Greece, was a peculiar cultus of Hermes (Mercury) at Stymphalus in Arcadia.

See also

References

Chinook Jargon

Alternative forms

  • kultus

Etymology

From Chinook kaltas (in vain, only), which is also written as ka'ltas, káltas, káltaš, etc.[1][2]

Adjective

cultus

  1. worthless

References

  1. Franz Boas (1911) Handbook of American Indian Languages, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 634
  2. H. Zenk, T. Johnson, & S.B. Hamilton (2010), Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) etymologies”, in J. Dunham & J. Lyon, editors, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 27

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʏl.tʏs/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: cul‧tus

Noun

cultus m (plural cultussen, diminutive cultusje n)

  1. (religion) cult, a particular tradition of worship or veneration of deities, ancestors, guardians or saints
  2. (religion) religious service

Usage notes

  • For the pejorative sense of cult (socially marginal, proscribed or deviant religious group), see sekte.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: kultus

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of colō (till, cultivate; worship).

Participle

cultus (feminine culta, neuter cultum, comparative cultior, superlative cultissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated
  2. protected, nurtured, having been protected
  3. (figuratively) worshipped, honored, having been worshipped
  4. (figuratively) dressed, clothed, adorned, having been adorned
    • 43 BCEc. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.538:
      cultaque diffūsīs saltat amīca comīs
      and, having been adorned, the girlfriend is dancing with her hair undone
      Or, in more natural English:
      and the fashionably dressed girlfriend is dancing with her hair undone
Declension

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Descendants

Noun

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  1. The act of tilling or cultivating.
  2. The act of honoring or worshipping, reverence, adoration, veneration; loyalty
  3. A religious group, cult, sect.
  4. Care directed to the refinement of life, cultural pursuit, civilization, culture, style; elegance, polish, refinement.
  5. Style of dress, external appearance, clothing, attire; ornament, decoration, splendor.
  6. (rare) The act of laboring at, labor, care, cultivation, culture.
  7. (rare) Training, education, culture.
    Synonym: disciplīna
Declension

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Descendants

References

  • cultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cultus 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)
  • cultus 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)
    • to be quite uncivilised: omnis cultus et humanitatis expertem esse
    • to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
    • worship of the gods; divine service: cultus dei, deorum (N. D. 2. 3. 8)
    • (ambiguous) to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
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