Farming and food

The sixth entry is a cultura agrícola, and the cognate in plain sight is a trap. English has « culture », out of the Latin cultura, and the word did once mean tillage: « the culture of the soil » survives in old books and in nothing anybody says. It has since gone indoors. « Culture » now belongs to peoples, to the arts and to a dish of bacteria in a laboratory, and it cannot be set in front of a field, so « the wheat culture is retreating in the region » is not a sentence a reader will take the way it was meant. The field word is « a crop », which has nothing Latin about it: in Old English cropp was the craw of a bird and then the swollen head of a plant, and from that head it grew outwards until it covered everything the year produced. What keeps the Latin root alive here is the tail of a compound — agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, aquaculture. So read a cultura as the crop whenever the sentence is standing in a field, and let « culture » keep the concert hall.