fructificatio

Latin

Etymology

From frūctificō (“I bear fruit”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fruːk.ti.fiˈkaː.ti.oː/, [fruːkt̪ɪfɪˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fruk.ti.fiˈkat.t͡si.o/, [frukt̪ifiˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

frūctificātiō f (genitive frūctificātiōnis); third declension

1. a bearing of fruit, fructification

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frūctificātiō	frūctificātiōnēs
Genitive	frūctificātiōnis	frūctificātiōnum
Dative	frūctificātiōnī	frūctificātiōnibus
Accusative	frūctificātiōnem	frūctificātiōnēs
Ablative	frūctificātiōne	frūctificātiōnibus
Vocative	frūctificātiō	frūctificātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: fructification
• French: fructification
• Italian: fruttificazione
• Spanish: fructificación

References

• “fructificatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fructificatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.