cultúr

See also: cultur

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kʊl̪ˠˈt̪ˠuːɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊl̪ˠt̪ˠuːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊl̪ˠt̪ˠuɾˠ/

Noun

cultúr m (genitive singular cultúir, nominative plural cultúir)

1. culture

Declension

Declension of cultúr (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cultúr cultúir vocative a chultúir a chultúra genitive cultúir cultúr dative cultúr cultúir forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cultúr na cultúir genitive an chultúir na gcultúr dative leis an gcultúr don chultúr leis na cultúir

Derived terms

• ardchultúr (“high culture”)
• cultúir (“cultural”)
• cultúrtha (“cultural; cultured”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cultúr

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cultúr	chultúr	gcultúr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cultúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN