fructuosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-

Proto-Italic *frūgjōr

Latin fruor

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin frūctus

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos

Latin -ōsus

Latin frūctuōsus

From frūctus (“enjoyment, profit, fruit”) + -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fruːk.tuˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fruk.tuˈɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

frūctuōsus (feminine frūctuōsa, neuter frūctuōsum, superlative frūctuōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. fruitful, productive
2. profitable, advantageous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	frūctuōsus	frūctuōsa	frūctuōsum		frūctuōsī	frūctuōsae	frūctuōsa
genitive	frūctuōsī	frūctuōsae	frūctuōsī		frūctuōsōrum	frūctuōsārum	frūctuōsōrum
dative	frūctuōsō	frūctuōsae	frūctuōsō		frūctuōsīs
accusative	frūctuōsum	frūctuōsam	frūctuōsum		frūctuōsōs	frūctuōsās	frūctuōsa
ablative	frūctuōsō	frūctuōsā	frūctuōsō		frūctuōsīs
vocative	frūctuōse	frūctuōsa	frūctuōsum		frūctuōsī	frūctuōsae	frūctuōsa

Derived terms

• īnfrūctuōsus

Descendants

• English: fructuous
• French: fructueux
• Italian: fruttuoso
• Portuguese: frutuoso
• Spanish: fructuoso

References

• “fructuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fructuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fructuosus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fructuosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.