fructuosus

From frūctus (“enjoyment, profit, fruit”) +‎ -ōsus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fruːk.tuˈoː.sus/, [fruːkt̪uˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fruk.tuˈo.sus/, [frukt̪uˈɔːs̬us]

frūctuōsus (feminine frūctuōsa, neuter frūctuōsum, superlative frūctuōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. fruitful, productive
2. profitable, advantageous

First/second-declension adjective.

• īnfrūctuōsus

• English: fructuous
• French: fructueux
• Italian: fruttuoso
• Portuguese: frutuoso
• Spanish: fructuoso

• “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’s 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.