fecundate

English

Etymology

From Latin fecundātus, perfect passive participle of fecundō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, fecund +‎ -ate. Compare French féconder.

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Verb

fecundate (third-person singular simple present fecundates, present participle fecundating, simple past and past participle fecundated)

1. To make fertile.
2. To inseminate.
   • 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 210:

     The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.

Derived terms

• unfecundated

Translations

to make fertile

Bulgarian: правя плодовит (pravja plodovit) French: féconder (fr) Romanian: fecunda (ro) Russian: де́лать плодоро́дным impf (délatʹ plodoródnym) Spanish: fecundar (es)

to inseminate

Bulgarian: оплождам (oploždam) Catalan: fecundar (ca) French: féconder (fr) Irish: toirchigh Russian: оплодотворя́ть (ru) impf (oplodotvorjátʹ), оплодотвори́ть (ru) pf (oplodotvorítʹ) Spanish: fecundar (es) Swedish: befrukta (sv)

Anagrams

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Spanish

Verb

fecundate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fecundar combined with te