prolificate

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English

Etymology

See prolific.

Verb

prolificate (third-person singular simple present prolificates, present participle prolificating, simple past and past participle prolificated)

  1. (dated, transitive) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
    • 1970 March, R. W. Buntenbach, “A generalized circuit model for multiwinding inductive devices”, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics:
      ...it enables simultaneous and self-consistent treatment of the magnetic circuit together with the associated purely electrical circuits and should prolificate the understanding and usage of electromagnetic components and systems.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      A greater difficulty, in the doctrine of eggs, is, how the sperm of the cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful...

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

prolificate

  1. inflection of prolificare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

prolificate f pl

  1. feminine plural of prolificato
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