culti
culti — noun
1. The formal religious practices, ceremonies, and forms of worship that are carrie
The formal religious practices, ceremonies, and forms of worship that are carried out by a particular group or community, especially in ancient or traditional societies.
The archaeologist found stone tablets describing the culti of the sun temple at Knossos.
culti + of + [place] for specifying a group's worship
During the harvest festival, the elders performed the ancient culti that their ancestors had observed for generations.
perform + culti for carrying out religious practices
Bao's doctoral dissertation examines the funerary culti of the Han dynasty elite.
Scholars of classical antiquity study the various culti that spread across the Mediterranean through trade routes.
The old manuscript lists the daily culti required to honour the household gods in ancient Rome.
- rites
more general term for ceremonial acts; less tied to formal worship systems
- rituals
emphasises the procedural, step-by-step nature of ceremonies
- worship practices
broader and more descriptive; works across all religious traditions
- liturgies
more specific to formal, written orders of worship in organised religion
文法句型
culti + of + [group/place]
perform/observe + culti
用法筆記
Used primarily in academic writing about religion and ancient cultures. 'Culti' is the Latin plural form of 'cultus'; the singular is even rarer in English. This word does not carry the modern negative connotation of 'cult' as a controlling group.