cultigen
English
/ˈkʌltɪdʒɛn/
noun
Definitions
- (botany) A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.
Etymology
Suffix from English cultivated affix from Latin cultus (adoration, care, cult, culture, the act of cultivating, cultivation, veneration, cultivated, reverence) + Latin gēns (tribe, clan, a race, nation, gens, n-g, la, family, race, people, kind).
Origin
Latin
gēns
Gloss
tribe, clan, a race, nation, gens, n-g, la, family, race, people, kind
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
家, 族
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cultivated English
- cultus English
- endocultivated English
- gens English
- genticide English
- incultivated English
- microcultivated English
- monocultivated English
- noncultivated English
- overcultivated English
- precultivated English
- uncult English
- uncultivated English
- cultivāre Latin
- cultivātus Latin
- cultus Latin
- cultīvus Latin
- cultīvāre Latin
- genticus Latin
- gentilis Latin
- gēns Latin
- Kultus German
- colto Italian
- culto Italian
- cultus Dutch, Flemish
- culte French
- génocide French
- culto Spanish, Castilian
- γένος Ancient Greek
- γεννάω Ancient Greek
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Indo-European
- cultas Irish
- culte Catalan, Valencian
- cuito Galician
- xente Venetian
- zento Istriot
- ginta Emilian