horticulture
English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti English horticulture 17th century, from the Latin word hortus (“garden”) + culture (on the model of agriculture). By surface analysis, horti- + cult + -ure.
Pronunciation
Noun
horticulture (usually uncountable, plural horticultures)
- The art or science of cultivating gardens; gardening.
1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 351:Let any one compare the fruit of one of the largest varieties exhibited at our Shows with that of the wild wood strawberry, or, which will be a fairer comparison, with the somewhat larger fruit of the wild American Virginian Strawberry, and he will see what prodigies horticulture has effected.
- Small-scale agriculture.
Derived terms
Translations
the science of caring for gardens
- Albanian: kopshtari (sq) f
- Arabic: بَسْتَنَة f (bastana)
- Armenian: այգեգործություն (hy) (aygegorcutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: bitkiçilik, bağçılıq
- Belarusian: садо́ўніцтва n (sadównictva), садаво́дства n (sadavódstva), гаро́днiцтва n (haródnictva), агаро́днiцтва n (aharódnictva), раслінаво́дства n (raslinavódstva)
- Bengali: উদ্যানতত্ত্ব (uddanototto)
- Bulgarian: градина́рство n (gradinárstvo), растениевъ́дство n (rastenievǎ́dstvo)
- Catalan: horticultura f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 園藝 / 园艺 (zh) (yuányì), 園藝學 / 园艺学 (zh)
- Czech: zahradnictví (cs) n
- Danish: havebrug n
- Dutch: tuinbouw (nl) m
- Estonian: taimekasvatus, aiandus
- Finnish: puutarhanhoito (fi), puutarhanviljely, puutarhatalous
- French: horticulture (fr) f
- Galician: horticultura (gl) f
- Georgian: მებაღეობა (mebaɣeoba)
- German: Gartenkultur (de) f, Hortikultur f, Gartenbau (de) m
- Greek: κηπουρική (el) f (kipourikí), κηπευτική (el) f (kipeftikí)
- Hebrew: גינון / גִּנּוּן (he) m (ginún)
- Hindi: बाग़बानी f (bāġbānī), उद्यान-विज्ञान m (udyān-vijñān), बाग़कारी f (bāġkārī)
- Hungarian: kertészet (hu), kertművelés (hu)
- Icelandic: garðyrkjufræði f
- Indonesian: hortikultura (id)
- Italian: orticoltura (it) f
- Japanese: 園芸 (ja) (えんげい, engei), ガーデニング (ja) (gādeningu)
- Kannada: ತೋಟಗಾರಿಕೆ (kn) (tōṭagārike)
- Kazakh: бағбаншылық (bağbanşylyq), баушылық (bauşylyq), бау-бақша шаруашылығы (bau-baqşa şaruaşylyğy)
- Korean: 원예(園藝) (ko) (wonye)
- Kyrgyz: багбанчылык (ky) (bagbancılık)
- Latvian: augkopība f, dārzkopība f
- Lithuanian: sodininkystė f
- Macedonian: градинарство n (gradinarstvo), хортикулту́ра f (hortikultúra)
- Malay: هورتيکولتور (hortikultur), kulturkebunan
- Malayalam: തോട്ടക്കൃഷി (ml) (tōṭṭakkr̥ṣi)
- Māori: ahumāra, ahuota
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hagebruk n
- Nynorsk: hagebruk n
- Occitan: orticultura f
- Persian: باغبانی (fa) (bâġbâni)
- Plautdietsch: Goadekonnst f
- Polish: ogrodnictwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: horticultura (pt) f
- Romanian: horticultură (ro) f, grădinărit (ro) n
- Russian: садово́дство (ru) n (sadovódstvo), огоро́дничество (ru) n (ogoródničestvo), растениево́дство (ru) n (rastenijevódstvo)
- Scottish Gaelic: tuathanachas-gàrraidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: цвећа́рство n, цвјећа́рство n, вртла́рство n, хортикулту́ра f
- Latin: cvećárstvo n, cvjećárstvo n, vrtlárstvo (sh) n, hortikultúra (sh) f
- Slovak: záhradníctvo (sk) n
- Slovene: vrtnarstvo n
- Spanish: horticultura (es) f
- Swedish: hortikultur (sv) c
- Tagalog: palahalmanan
- Tajik: боғдори (boġdor-i), боғпарварӣ (boġparvari), боғшинонӣ (boġšinoni), боғбонӣ (boġboni), рустанипарварӣ (rustaniparvari)
- Tamil: தோட்டக்கலை (ta) (tōṭṭakkalai), தோட்டவியல் (tōṭṭaviyal)
- Tatar: бакчачылык (tt) (baqçaçılıq)
- Thai: พืชกรรมสวน
- Turkish: bahçecilik (tr)
- Turkmen: bagbançylyk (tk)
- Ukrainian: садівни́цтво n (sadivnýctvo), горо́дництво n (horódnyctvo), росли́нництво n (roslýnnyctvo)
- Urdu: بَاغْبَانِی f (bāġbānī)
- Uyghur: باغۋەنچىلىك (baghwenchilik)
- Uzbek: bogʻdorchilik (uz)
- Vietnamese: nghề làm vườn
- Volapük: gadav (vo)
- Welsh: garddwriaeth f
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French
Etymology
From Latin hortus (“garden”), on the model of agriculture.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔʁ.ti.kyl.tyʁ/
Noun
horticulture f (plural horticultures)
- horticulture
See also
Further reading
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