viticulture

English

Etymology

From viti- +‎ culture, from Latin vītis + cultūra (“cultivation of the vine, vine-growing”). Compare agriculture.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪdəˌkəltʃər/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtɪˌkʌltʃə/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

viticulture (usually uncountable, plural viticultures)

1. The agricultural practice of growing vines, particularly grape vines.

   The old French farmer practiced viticulture and raised some of the best grapes in the world.
   He is knowledgeable in viticulture.

Synonyms

• viniculture, winegrowing, vine-growing

Hypernyms

• winemaking

Derived terms

• viticultural
• viticulturer
• viticulturist

 

Translations

practice or science of growing vines, particularly grape vines for wine production

• Albanian: vneshtari f, vreshtari (sq) f
• Armenian: խաղողագործություն (hy) (xaġoġagorcutʻyun)
• Belarusian: вінагра́дарства n (vinahrádarstva)
• Bulgarian: лозарство n (lozarstvo)
• Catalan: viticultura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葡萄栽培學／葡萄栽培学 (pútáozāipéixué), 葡萄栽培法 (pútáozāipéifǎ)

• Czech: vinařství (cs) n, vinohradnictví n
• Dutch: wijnbouw (nl) m
• Finnish: viininviljely (fi)
• French: viticulture (fr) f, viniculture (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Weinbau (de) m
• Hungarian: szőlészet (hu), szőlőművelés (hu)
• Irish: fíonsaothrú m
• Italian: viticoltura (it) f, vinicoltura f
• Japanese: 葡萄栽培 (ぶどうさいばい, budōsaibai)
• Kazakh: жүзімшілік (jüzımşılık), жүзім шаруашылығы (jüzım şaruaşylyğy)
• Macedonian: лозарство n (lozarstvo)
• Portuguese: vinicultura f, viticultura (pt) f
• Romanian: viticultură (ro) f
• Russian: виногра́дарство (ru) n (vinográdarstvo), виноде́лие (ru) n (vinodélije) (winemaking)
• Slovak: vinohradníctvo (sk) n
• Spanish: viticultura (es) f, vinicultura f
• Turkish: bağcılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: виногра́дарство n (vynohrádarstvo)

References

• “viticulture, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

French

Etymology

From Latin vītis (“vine”) + cultūra (“cultivation, agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.ti.kyl.tyʁ/

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Noun

viticulture f (plural viticultures)

1. viticulture

Further reading

• “viticulture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

viticulture f

1. plural of viticultura