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 the meanings of words, many of them taken from classical languages such as Greek and Latin and its adaptation (or not) to the different current languages. 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 classical language (Greek and Latin) and that it 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 type of alteration as the new Romance languages have developed, so there are few that we can consider cultisms compared to the total number of words that make up a language.
In addition, this also contributes to the fact that cultisms tend to be words that are not used in everyday life, in common or informal language, but in most cases they are related to academic and scientific fields. In this way, many words that are related to science and that end with the suffix lodge they 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 changed 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.
