fecund
pronunciation
How to pronounce fecund in British English:
UK [ˈfi:kənd]
How to pronounce fecund in American English:
US [ˈfikənd, ˈfɛkənd]
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- Adjective:
- capable of producing offspring or vegetation
- intellectually productive
Word Origin
- fecund
- fecund: see foetus
- fecund (adj.)
- a 16c. Latinizing revision of the spelling of Middle English fecond (early 15c.), from Middle French fecond (Old French fecont "fruitful"), from Latin fecundus "fruitful, fertile, productive; rich, abundant," from *fe-kwondo-, suffixed form (adjectival) of Latin root *fe-, corresponding to PIE *dhe(i)- "to suck, suckle," also "produce, yield." Cognates include: Sanskrit dhayati "sucks," dhayah "nourishing;" Greek thele "mother's breast, nipple," thelys "female, fruitful;" Old Church Slavonic dojiti "to suckle," dojilica "nurse," deti "child;" Lithuanian dele "leech;" Old Prussian dadan "milk;" Gothic daddjan "to suckle;" Old Swedish dia "suckle;" Old High German tila "female breast;" Old Irish denaim "I suck," dinu "lamb." Also from the same Latin root come felare "to suck;" femina "woman" (*fe-mna-, literally "she who suckles"); felix "happy, auspicious, fruitful;" fetus "offspring, pregnancy;" fenum "hay" (probably literally "produce"); and probably filia/filius "daughter/son," assimilated from *felios, originally "a suckling."
Example
- 1. They have a fecund soil .
- 2. Management : want fecund and wet place only , weaker illumination can grow good .
- 3. Not tall to edaphic requirement , but the soil with fecund and loose happy event .
- 4. In her 30s , a woman becomes ever less fecund .
- 5. He has a fecund imagination .