cult
English
/kʌlt/
noun
Definitions
- (chiefly) A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
- Devotion to a saint.
- The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context.
- A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.
- (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
Etymology
Derived from French culte derived from Latin cultus (adoration, care, cult, culture, the act of cultivating, cultivation, veneration, cultivated, reverence) root from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷel-
Gloss
turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticult English
- anticultism English
- anticultist English
- buster English
- columnist English
- counter-cultist English
- cultbuster English
- cultdom English
- culthead English
- cultic English
- cultically English
- cultigen English
- cultish English
- cultishly English
- cultishness English
- cultism English
- cultist English
- cultlike English
- cultus English
- culty English
- cybercult English
- decollate English
- decollation English
- horticulture English
- mass English
- masscult English
- megacult English
- midcult English
- noncult English
- subcult English
- telegram English
- teletype English
- telic English
- telicity English
- uncult English
- Colōnia Agrippīna Latin
- ad- Latin
- agricola Latin
- agricultura Latin
- collum Latin
- collāris Latin
- colo Latin
- colonia Latin
- colonus Latin
- columna Latin
- colōnia Latin
- cultivāre Latin
- cultivātus Latin
- cultura Latin
- cultus Latin
- cultīvus Latin
- cultīvāre Latin
- cultōrem Latin
- cultūra Latin
- viscericola Latin
- Kultus German
- colto Italian
- culto Italian
- telefonata Italian
- telefonatore Italian
- telefonatrice Italian
- cultus Dutch, Flemish
- tele- Dutch, Flemish
- telegraferen Dutch, Flemish
- telegrafisch Dutch, Flemish
- telescoop Dutch, Flemish
- culte French
- télégraphe French
- télégraphie French
- téléphone French
- télévision French
- cultismo Spanish, Castilian
- culto Spanish, Castilian
- βουκολικός Ancient Greek
- κυκλοτερής Ancient Greek
- κύκλος Ancient Greek
- πάλαι Ancient Greek
- πέλω Ancient Greek
- περιπλόμενος Ancient Greek
- πλήμνη Ancient Greek
- πόλος Ancient Greek
- τέλειος Ancient Greek
- τέλος Ancient Greek
- τελέω Ancient Greek
- τηλεσκόπος Ancient Greek
- τῆλε Ancient Greek
- ἀνατολή Ancient Greek
- *(s)kel- Proto-Indo-European
- *-kʷolos Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷowkólos Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷowkólos, *gʷow-kólos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ésmi Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂mbʰi-kʷol-ó-s, *h₂m̥bʰikʷolós Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷekʷlóm Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥His Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolso- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolsom Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷukʷlos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷékʷlos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷéleti Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷélus Proto-Indo-European
- *wert- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- cult Portuguese
- culto Portuguese
- カルト Japanese
- kult Polish
- आचार Sanskrit
- चर् Sanskrit
- चलति Sanskrit
- চৰতি, चरति Sanskrit
- cultas Irish
- inquilinus Old Norse
- *kolo Proto-Slavic
- kulti Esperanto
- culte Catalan, Valencian
- cuito Galician
- cult Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- چالش Persian
- چریدن Persian
- kulto Cebuano
- dychwelyd Welsh
- pell Welsh
- klaips Latvian
- հոլով Old Armenian
- kült Turkish
- kulto Tagalog
- စက်ဘီး Burmese
- *čárati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- aṅklautkatte Tocharian B
- *palaiós, *palai(y)ós Proto-Hellenic
- *kaklas bat-pro
- mass
- telic
- culty
- buster
- cultus
- cultic
- uncult
- midcult
- cultdom
- subcult
- noncult
- cultish
- cultist
- cultism
- culthead
- megacult
- teletype
- cultigen
- masscult
- anticult
- telicity
- cultlike
- telegram
- cultishly
- columnist
- cybercult
- decollate
- cultically
- cultbuster
- decollation
- anticultism
- cultishness
- anticultist
- horticulture
- counter-cultist