cultus

Latin cultus (“cultivation, culture”). See cult.

cultus (plural cultuses)

1. Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.

• cultus cod

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏl.tʏs/

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Borrowed from Latin cultus.

cultus m (plural cultussen, diminutive cultusje n)

1. (religion) cult, a particular tradition of worship or veneration of deities, ancestors, guardians or saints

• For the pejorative sense of cult (“socially marginal, proscribed or deviant religious group”), see sekte.

• cultusplaats

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.tus/, [ˈkʊɫ.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.tus/
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.tus/, [ˈkol.tos]

Perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate; worship”).

cultus m (feminine culta, neuter cultum); first/second declension

1. tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated
2. protected, nurtured, having been protected
3. (figuratively) worshipped, honored, having been worshipped
4. (figuratively) dressed, clothed, adorned, having been adorned

First/second declension.

• Italian: colto
• Spanish: culto
• German: Kultur

cultus m (genitive cultūs); fourth declension

1. The act of tilling or cultivating.
2. The act of honoring or worshipping, reverence, adoration, veneration; loyalty
3. A religious group, cult, sect.
4. Care directed to the refinement of life, cultural pursuit, civilization, culture, style; elegance, polish, refinement.
5. Style of dress, external appearance, clothing, attire; ornament, decoration, splendor.
6. (rare) The act of laboring at, labor, care, cultivation, culture.
7. (rare) Training, education, culture.

Fourth declension.

• cultus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cultus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cultus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cultus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)
    
  • to be quite uncivilised: omnis cultus et humanitatis expertem esse
    
  • to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • worship of the gods; divine service: cultus dei, deorum (N. D. 2. 3. 8)
    
  • (ambiguous) to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)