Etymology

organoculture

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Today it means: The tissue culture of whole organs Full definition →

English culture ← Middle French culture ← Latin cultūra
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*werǵ-
  2. Ancient Greekὄργανον (órganon)
  3. Latinorganum
  4. Old Frenchorgane
  5. Middle Englishorgane
  6. Englishorgan
  7. Englishorgano-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  10. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  11. Latincolō
  12. Latincultūra
  13. Middle Frenchculture
  14. Englishculture
  15. English todayorganoculture

From organo- + culture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.