cultura
/kulˈtuɾa/ · B1 · noun · f
culture
🌱📚 Latin cultura = tilling the soil; culture is a cultivated mind
It comes from Latin colere, to till or tend, the same root as agriculture. Spanish cultura covers a society's culture and also personal learning: una persona de cultura is a well-read person. Stress falls on -TU-: cul-TU-ra.