fecundus

Latin

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fēcundus	fēcunda	fēcundum		fēcundī	fēcundae	fēcunda
genitive	fēcundī	fēcundae	fēcundī		fēcundōrum	fēcundārum	fēcundōrum
dative	fēcundō	fēcundae	fēcundō		fēcundīs
accusative	fēcundum	fēcundam	fēcundum		fēcundōs	fēcundās	fēcunda
ablative	fēcundō	fēcundā	fēcundō		fēcundīs
vocative	fēcunde	fēcunda	fēcundum		fēcundī	fēcundae	fēcunda

Derived terms

• fēcundē
• īnfēcundus

Related terms

• fēcundātor
• fēcunditās
• fēcundō
• fētus

Descendants

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

References

• “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