culto

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) religious devotion
2. (masculine) liturgy (set of rituals)
3. (broadly, masculine) religion
4. (masculine) worship, adoration (in a non-religious sense)
5. (masculine) strong attachment
6. (masculine) obsession, admiration
7. (masculine, obsolete) cultivation

Adj

1. (literary) cultured, well-educated, cultivated
2. (literary) elegant, embellished
3. (literary) cultivated
4. (literary) inhabited

Concepts

cult

worship

adoration

religion

faith

gospel

idolatry

latria

veneration

church doctrine

religious doctrine

cultus

organized religion

religious cult

creed

cultism

devotion

Opposite of

ignorante, incolto

Synonyms

adorazione

devozione

venerazione

religione

divozione

dedizione

credo

fede

ardore

professione di fede

Translations

culte

λατρεία

culto

culte

culto

adoració

Verehrung

Kult

adoration

adoração

Anbetung

vénération

ibadet

veneració

Hyphenated as

cùl‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkul.to/

Etymology

From Latin cultus (“reverence, adoration, veneration”), noun use of the perfect passive participle of colō (“to cultivate; to worship”), originating from Proto-Indo-European *kʷl̥tós, derived from the root *kʷel- (“to turn”). Doublet of colto.