Etymology

overculture

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Today it means: The dominant culture in a society, whose mores, traditions, and customs are those normally followed in public, as opposed to a subculture. Full definition →

English culture ← Middle French culture ← Latin cultūra
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  9. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  10. Latincolō
  11. Latincultūra
  12. Middle Frenchculture
  13. Englishculture
  14. English todayoverculture

From over- + culture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.