fructuosus

== Latin == === Etymology === From frūctus (“enjoyment, profit, fruit”) +‎ -ōsus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fruːk.tuˈoː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fruk.tuˈɔː.s̬us] === Adjective === frūctuōsus (feminine frūctuōsa, neuter frūctuōsum, superlative frūctuōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective fruitful, productive profitable, advantageous ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== īnfrūctuōsus ==== Descendants ==== English: fructuous French: fructueux Italian: fruttuoso Portuguese: frutuoso Spanish: fructuoso === 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, 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.