prolific

See also: prolífic

English

Alternative forms

• prolifick (obsolete)

Etymology

1640–1650: from French prolifique, from Latin proles (“offspring”) and facere (“to make”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/, /ˌpɹoʊˈlɪf.ɪk/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧li‧fic
• Rhymes: -ɪfɪk

Adjective

prolific (comparative more prolific, superlative most prolific)

1. Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
2. Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance
   • 2007, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, page 58:

     However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.

   • 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.

3. (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.

Synonyms

• fertile
• (producing offspring or fruit in abundance): fecund
• (producing results or works in abundance): See also Thesaurus:productive

Derived terms

Derived terms

• prolificacy
• prolifically
• prolificity
• prolificness

Translations

Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: плодороден (bg) (plodoroden)
• Catalan: prolífic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高产的

• Danish: frugtbar (da)
• Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hedelmällinen (fi), satoisa (fi) (of plants)
• French: fécond (fr) m, prolifique (fr) m or f
• German: fruchtbar (de)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: bisiúil, torthúil
• Italian: fecondo (it), fruttifero (it)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: hāwere, huākumu
• Plautdietsch: fruchtboa
• Polish: płodny (pl)
• Portuguese: prolífico (pt), frutífero (pt) m, fértil (pt)
• Romanian: prolific (ro)
• Russian: плодови́тый (ru) (plodovítyj), плодоно́сный (ru) (plodonósnyj), урожа́йный (ru) (urožájnyj), оби́льный (ru) (obílʹnyj) (crop)
• Serbo-Croatian: plodonosan (sh) m

  Cyrillic: плодан, родан, обилан m

  Roman: plodan (sh), rodan (sh), obilan (sh) m

• Spanish: prolífico (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: doğurgan (tr), velüt; bereketli (tr), mahsûldar, verimli (tr), münbit (tr)
• Welsh: epiliog, epilgar, hiliog

Similarly producing results or works in abundance

• Bulgarian: продуктивен (bg) (produktiven)
• Catalan: prolífic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: produktiv
• Dutch: productief (nl)
• Finnish: tuottelias (fi), tuottoisa (fi)
• French: prolifique (fr) m or f
• German: produktiv (de)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: rafar
• Italian: prolifico (it), produttivo (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tōnui
• Norwegian: suksessrik
• Polish: wyborowy (pl)
• Portuguese: prolífico (pt) m
• Russian: плодови́тый (ru) (plodovítyj), продукти́вный (ru) (produktívnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плодан m

  Roman: plodan (sh) m

• Spanish: prolífico (es)
• Swedish: produktiv (sv)
• Turkish: bereketli (tr), üretken (tr), verimli (tr), yediveren (tr)
• Ukrainian: продукти́вний (produktývnyj)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: cynhyrchiol (cy), toreithiog (cy)

References

• “prolific”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prolifique.

Adjective

prolific m or n (feminine singular prolifică, masculine plural prolifici, feminine and neuter plural prolifice)

1. prolific

Declension

Declension of prolific

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	prolific		prolifică	prolifici	prolifice
	definite	prolificul		prolifica	prolificii	prolificele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	prolific		prolifice	prolifici	prolifice
	definite	prolificului		prolificei	prolificilor	prolificelor

Related terms

• prolificitate