fructus
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin frūctus.
Noun
editfructus (uncountable)
- (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).
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfructus m (invariable)
- fructus
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfruːk.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfruk.tus]
Etymology 1
editPerfect active participle of fruor.
Participle
editfrūctus (feminine frūcta, neuter frūctum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
editFirst/second-declension participle.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | frūctus | frūcta | frūctum | frūctī | frūctae | frūcta | |
| genitive | frūctī | frūctae | frūctī | frūctōrum | frūctārum | frūctōrum | |
| dative | frūctō | frūctae | frūctō | frūctīs | |||
| accusative | frūctum | frūctam | frūctum | frūctōs | frūctās | frūcta | |
| ablative | frūctō | frūctā | frūctō | frūctīs | |||
| vocative | frūcte | frūcta | frūctum | frūctī | frūctae | frūcta | |
Alternative forms
editDerived terms
editEtymology 2
editEtymology tree
From fruor + -tus (forming action nouns).
Noun
editfrūctus m (genitive frūctūs); fourth declension
- enjoyment, delight, satisfaction
- produce, product, fruit
- profit, yield, output, income
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 15.51:
- Quamquam mē quidem nōn frūctus modō, sed etiam ipsīus terrae vīs ac nātūra dēlectat.
- [Farming is like having an “investment account” with the earth.] And yet, for my part, it is not only the profitable yield that delights me, but also the inherent power and nature of the earth itself.
- Quamquam mē quidem nōn frūctus modō, sed etiam ipsīus terrae vīs ac nātūra dēlectat.
- (by extension) effect, result, return, reward, success
- c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, 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)
- cōnsīderāvit agrum et emit eum dē frūctū manuum suārum plantāvit vīneam
Declension
editFourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | frūctus | frūctūs |
| genitive | frūctūs | frūctuum |
| dative | frūctuī | frūctibus |
| accusative | frūctum | frūctūs |
| ablative | frūctū | frūctibus |
| vocative | frūctus | frūctūs |
Alternative forms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Insular Romance:
- Eastern Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → Albanian: fryt (via Vulgar Latin), frutë (via Classical Latin)
- → Aromanian: fructu
- → Asturian: frutu, fruta
- → Basque: fruitu
- → Baltic Romani: frukto
- → Greek: φρούτο (froúto)
- → Leonese: frutu, fruta
- → Polish: frukt
- → Russian: фрукт (frukt)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *fruɨθ (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *fruht (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: fruct
- → Spanish: fruto, fruta
- → Ukrainian: фрукт (frukt)
References
edit- “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, 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[1], 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)
- to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
- “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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