'Cultivate' links farming, culture, and worship — all from Latin 'colere' (to tend).
To prepare and use land for growing crops; to nurture and develop a quality, sentiment, or skill; to try to win the friendship or favor of someone.
From Medieval Latin 'cultivātus,' the past participle of 'cultivāre' (to cultivate, to till the earth, to improve by care), formed from Late Latin 'cultīvus' (fitted for cultivation, tilled), from Latin 'cultus,' the past participle of 'colere' (to tend, to till, to care for, to inhabit, to worship). The verb 'colere' is among the most semantically rich in Latin, connecting agriculture, habitation, religion, and refinement: it produced 'agricultura' (field-tending), 'cultus' (worship, refinement, culture), 'cultura' (tilling, culture), 'cultūra' (whence English 'culture'), 'incola' (inhabitant), 'incolere' (to inhabit), and 'colōnus' (farmer, settler — whence 'colony' and 'colonel'). The PIE root