English

horticulturist

Horticulturist comes from English horticulture.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 2014, Charles Quest-Ritson: “[…] [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that…”

Equivalent to horti- + cult + -ure + -ist

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos

Proto-Italic *hortos ‘enclosure’

Latin hortus ‘garden’

Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- ‘to move, to turn (around), to revolve around,…’

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Proto-Italic *kʷelō ‘to inhabit’

Latin colō ‘cultivate’

Latin cultus ‘care, adoration’

French culte

English cult

Every English word from English horticulture

noun A gardener; a person interested in or practicing horticulture.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.