inculte

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin incultus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

inculte (feminine inculta, masculine and feminine plural incultes)

  1. uncultivated, fallow
    Synonym: incultivat
    Antonyms: cultivat, conreat
  2. (figurative) uncultured
    Antonym: culte

Further reading

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin incultus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kylt/
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Adjective

inculte (plural incultes)

  1. uncultivated, fallow
    Synonym: en friche
    des terres incultes(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (derogatory) uncultivated, uneducated, unread; uncultured
    Antonym: cultivé

Noun

inculte m or f by sense (plural incultes)

  1. (derogatory) ignoramus, yokel
    Antonym: personne cultivée

Further reading

Latin

Adjective

inculte

  1. vocative masculine singular of incultus

References

  • inculte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inculte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inculte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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