fecundus

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- +‎ -cundus, see also Sanskrit धयति (dhayati), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem) and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feːˈkʊn.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈkun̪.d̪us]

fēcundus (feminine fēcunda, neuter fēcundum); first/second-declension adjective

1. fertile or fruitful

   Synonyms: fertilis, frūgifer, ūber, opīmus, dīves, dītis

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.209–210:

     ‘est mihi fēcundus dōtālibus hortus in agrīs:
     aura fovet, liquidae fonte rigātur aquae’

     “Mine is a fruitful garden in the fields [that are my] dowry: a breeze warms [it], [it] being moistened by a spring of clear water.”
     (See Flora (mythology).)

2. productive (of offspring) or prolific
3. abundant, prolific, plentiful

   Synonyms: cōpiōsus, cumulātus, largus, abundāns, ūber

   Antonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus

4. imaginative

First/second-declension adjective.

• fēcundē
• īnfēcundus

• fēcundātor
• fēcunditās
• fēcundō
• fētus

• Franco-Provençal: fyõ, fion
• Piedmontese: fọ́ndo
• → Catalan: fecund
• → English: fecund
• → French: fécond
• → Italian: fecondo
• → Portuguese: fecundo
• → Spanish: fecundo

• “fecundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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) “fecundus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 243