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Although it is not widely used or common in everyday language, the word cultism is very important when it comes to language because it has to do with meanings of words, many of them taken from classical languages ​​such as Greek and Latin and their adaptation (or not) to different languages current. The term cultism comes from Latin (for which, we can say that it is also a cultism). In the Latin language, cultismo is a derivation of the word cultus, from which the word culture will also descend. Thus, cultism is everything that has to do with culture and especially understood in relation to language.

We can say that cultism is a word that has been taken from a language classical (Greek and Latin) and that is used in the current language, in our case Castilian or Spanish, maintaining its original meaning as well as its structure and Format. It is important to note that the vast majority of words have undergone some kind of alteration as the new Romance languages ​​become were developed, for which there are few that we can consider cultisms compared to the total of the words that make up a idiom.

In addition, this also contributes to the fact that cultisms tend to be words that are not used in the day to day, in the common or informal language, but in most cases they are related to academic environments and scientists. Thus, many words that are related to science and that end with the suffix lodge are cultisms, for example: epistemology, methodology, etymology, dermatology, psychology, pedagogy, etc. Other typical endings of cultism are the endings of ico or ica, for example with logic, clinical, hermetic, politics, mathematics, music, panic, etc. Also the words that end with the suffix ia without accentuation are usually cultivated as democracy, allergy, aristocracy, phobia, hysteria, history, church, etc.

Words that varied over time and lost their original format are known, as opposed to cultisms, as heritage words, that is, they are already the exclusive heritage of each language because they are no longer the same as they were originally.