cultivate Copy link Outline 1. cŏlo, ui, ultum, 3 (in all senses)2. excŏlo, 3 (to c. carefully or elegantly; hence rarely of land except in poet.)3. rĕcŏlo (to c. over again)4. ăro, 15. exerceo, 2 (gen. term for to work, employ)6. fŏveo, 2 • cultivate: 1. cŏlo, ui, ultum, 3 (in all senses): to c. land, agros c., Cic.: to c. the vine, vitem c., Cic.: to c. the mind by means of liberal studies, pectus ingenuas per artes c., Ov.: to c. virtue, virtutem c., Cic.: to c. the liberal arts, artes liberales c., Suet.: to c. friendship (in the abstract), amicitiam c., Cic.: but to c. a person's affection or regard, colere aliquem (without amicitia). 2. excŏlo, 3 (to c. carefully or elegantly; hence rarely of land except in poet.): the memory is strengthened by c.ing it, memoria excolendo augetur, Quint.: to c. (and refine) the mind by learning, animos doctrina ex., Cic. (Rare except in this fig. use.) 3. rĕcŏlo (to c. over again): to c. a deserted land once more, desertam terram r., Liv. (But Cic. would probably have rather said rursus colere.) 4. ăro, 1: v. to farm. 5. exerceo, 2 (gen. term for to work, employ): to c. the ground for a harvest, humum ex. in messem, Virg.: to c. vineyards, plantations, plains, vineas, arbusta, campos curare et ex., Plin.: v. to exercise. 6. fŏveo, 2: v. to cherish, foster. Phr.: to c. industriously the soil, terram moliri, Virg.: I c. the study of Greek literature, multum Graecis literis utor, Cic.: to c. a beard, barbam pascere, Hor.: to c. any one's good graces, gratiam alicujus sequi, Caes.; fovere, Tac.