Etymology

pisciculture

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Today it means: The rearing or cultivation of fish. Full definition →

English culture ← Middle French culture ← Latin cultūra
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péysks
  2. Proto-Italic*piskis
  3. Latinpiscis
  4. Englishpisci-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  7. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  8. Latincolō
  9. Latincultūra
  10. Middle Frenchculture
  11. Englishculture
  12. English todaypisciculture

From pisci- + culture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.