cultivate
verbEtymology
From Medieval Latin cultivātus, perfect passive participle of cultivō (“till, cultivate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate”), which comes from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō) and Sanskrit चरति (cárati). The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin in-quil-īnus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).
- derived from cultus
- derived from cultivātus
Definitions
To grow plants, notably crops.
- Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.
- So unhealthy is this valley, which is the home of large game, that whole kraals full of people who have tried to cultivate the rich land, have died in it of fever, or fled away leaving their crops unreaped.
- My hobby is gathering the spores of some of the most delicious of the wild varieties of mushrooms, such as morels, giant puffballs and woods oysters, then cultivating them.
To nurture
To nurture; to foster; to tend.
- They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
- Left also to himself by guardians[…] he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between…
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cultivate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cultivate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at cultivate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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