cult-「耕す」から。culture、すなわち、耕す、栽培する、から派生した。
For without culture or holiness, which are always the gift of a very few, a man may renounce wealth or any other external thing, but he cannot renounce hatred, envy, jealousy, revenge. Culture is the sanctity of the intellect. [William Butler Yeats]Slang culture vulture is from 1947. Culture shock first recorded 1940.