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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin frūctus.

Noun

fructus (uncountable)

  1. (law, historical) In Ancient Roman law, any product originating either from a natural source (such as fruits grown or animals bred) or from legal transactions (e.g. interest on a loan).

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect active participle of fruor.

Participle

frūctus (feminine frūcta, neuter frūctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. enjoyed; having derived pleasure from
Declension

First/second-declension participle.

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Etymology 2

From fruor +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

frūctus m (genitive frūctūs); fourth declension

  1. enjoyment, delight, satisfaction
    Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, voluptās, laetitia, dēlectātiō
    Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, trīstitia, tristitās
  2. produce, product, fruit
    Synonyms: seges, prōventus, frūx
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.671–672:
      fēcundior annus prōvenit, et frūctum terra pecūsque ferunt
      A more fertile year proceeds, and the land and the cattle bring forth produce.
  3. profit, yield, output, income
  4. (by extension) effect, result, return, reward, success
    Synonyms: successus, frūx, effectus, ēventus, exitus, prōventus
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.31.16:
      cōnsīderāvit agrum et emit eum dē frūctū manuum suārum plantāvit vīneam
      She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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References

  • “fructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "fructus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “fructus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
    • (great) advantage accrues to me from this: fructus ex hac re redundant in or ad me
    • I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat
    • to reap: fructus demetere or percipere
    • to harvest crops: fructus condere (N. D. 2. 62. 156)
  • “fructus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fructus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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