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Latin
Etymology
From frūctus (“enjoyment, profit, fruit”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
frūctuōsus (feminine frūctuōsa, neuter frūctuōsum, superlative frūctuōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- fruitful, productive
- profitable, advantageous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
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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’s 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.