Etymology

natureculture

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Today it means: Nature and culture, understood as inseparable elements of a single system rather than as dichotomous. Full definition →

English culture ← Middle French culture ← Latin cultūra
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₁-sḱé-ti
  3. Proto-Italic*gnāskōr
  4. Latinnāscor
  5. Latinnātūra
  6. Old Frenchnature
  7. Middle Englishnature
  8. Englishnature
  9. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  11. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  12. Latincolō
  13. Latincultūra
  14. Middle Frenchculture
  15. Englishculture
  16. English todaynatureculture

Coined by American science and technology studies scholar Donna Haraway in 2003, from nature + culture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.