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fructus

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin frūctus.

Noun

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fructus (uncountable)

  1. (law, historical) In Ancient Roman law, any product originating either from a natural source (such as fruits grown or animals bred) or from legal transactions (e.g. interest on a loan).

Latin

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Etymology

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    From fruor (“have the benefit of, use, enjoy”) +‎ -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs); equivalent to Proto-Italic *frūktus and Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-tu-s.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    frūctus m (genitive frūctūs); fourth declension

    1. enjoyment, delight, satisfaction
      Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, voluptās, laetitia, dēlectātiō
      Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, trīstitia, tristitās
    2. produce, product, fruit
      Synonyms: seges, prōventus, frūx
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.671–672:
        fēcundior annus prōvenit, et frūctum terra pecūsque ferunt
        A more fertile year proceeds, and the land and the cattle bring forth produce.
    3. profit, yield, output, income
    4. (by extension) effect, result, return, reward, success
      Synonyms: successus, frūx, effectus, ēventus, exitus, prōventus
      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.31.16:
        cōnsīderāvit agrum et emit eum dē frūctū manuum suārum plantāvit vīneam
        She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

    Declension

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    Fourth-declension noun.

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative frūctus frūctūs
    Genitive frūctūs frūctuum
    Dative frūctuī frūctibus
    Accusative frūctum frūctūs
    Ablative frūctū frūctibus
    Vocative frūctus frūctūs

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    Participle

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    frūctus (feminine frūcta, neuter frūctum); first/second-declension participle

    1. enjoyed, having derived pleasure from

    Declension

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    First/second-declension adjective.

    Number Singular Plural
    Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
    Nominative frūctus frūcta frūctum frūctī frūctae frūcta
    Genitive frūctī frūctae frūctī frūctōrum frūctārum frūctōrum
    Dative frūctō frūctō frūctīs
    Accusative frūctum frūctam frūctum frūctōs frūctās frūcta
    Ablative frūctō frūctā frūctō frūctīs
    Vocative frūcte frūcta frūctum frūctī frūctae frūcta

    References

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    • “fructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “fructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • fructus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • fructus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
      • (great) advantage accrues to me from this: fructus ex hac re redundant in or ad me
      • I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat
      • to reap: fructus demetere or percipere
      • to harvest crops: fructus condere (N. D. 2. 62. 156)
    • “fructus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “fructus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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