fructive
English
Etymology
From Middle English fructife, fructyff, from Latin frūctus + -yf (modern -ive).[1][2]
Adjective
fructive (comparative more fructive, superlative most fructive)
- (formal) fructuous; fruitful
- 1843, J[ohann] Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, […], 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, […]; Leipsic: F[riedrich] A[rnold] Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164:
- Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: […]
References
- ^ “fructive, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “fructī̆f, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.