Etymology

nonculture

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Today it means: Absence of culture. Full definition →

English culture ← Middle French culture ← Latin cultūra
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  16. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  17. Latincolō
  18. Latincultūra
  19. Middle Frenchculture
  20. Englishculture
  21. English todaynonculture

From non- + culture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.