fecundus
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-, see also Sanskrit धयति (dhayati), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem) and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /feːˈkun.dus/, [feːˈkʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feˈkun.dus/, [feˈkun̪d̪us]
AdjectiveEdit
fēcundus (feminine fēcunda, neuter fēcundum); first/second-declension adjective
- fertile or fruitful
- productive (of offspring) or prolific
- abundant
- imaginative
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | fēcundus | fēcunda | fēcundum | fēcundī | fēcundae | fēcunda | |
Genitive | fēcundī | fēcundae | fēcundī | fēcundōrum | fēcundārum | fēcundōrum | |
Dative | fēcundō | fēcundō | fēcundīs | ||||
Accusative | fēcundum | fēcundam | fēcundum | fēcundōs | fēcundās | fēcunda | |
Ablative | fēcundō | fēcundā | fēcundō | fēcundīs | |||
Vocative | fēcunde | fēcunda | fēcundum | fēcundī | fēcundae | fēcunda |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Franco-Provençal: fyõ, fion
- Piedmontese: fọ́ndo
- → Catalan: fecund
- → English: fecund
- → French: fécond
- → Italian: fecondo
- → Portuguese: fecundo
- → Spanish: fecundo
ReferencesEdit
- “fecundus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “fecundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fecundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “30”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 442