cultus

Other forms of cultus

plural

culti

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cultus

What does cultus mean?

cultus means "a system of religious beliefs and rituals".

How many syllables are in cultus?

cultus has 2 syllables: cul-tus. The stress falls on "cul".

What is another word for cultus?

Close synonyms include cult, religious cult. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cultus a common word?

cultus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.