fruitful Copy link Outline 1. fēcundus (having prolific energy)2. frūgĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum (actually yielding fruit)3. fructuōsus (actually yielding fruit in abundance)4. fructuārius (fruit-bearing as opp. to bearing merely leaves or flowers)5. fertĭlis, e (which denotes capacity for fruitfulness, not actual bearing of fruit6. fĕrax, ācis7. fētus (= fecundus, but chiefly poet.)8. fructĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum9. ūber10. fēlix, īcis (poet.) • fruitful: 1. fēcundus (having prolific energy): a f. soil, f. solum, Quint. 2, 19, 2: nature has produced nothing more f. than the sow, sue nihil genuit natura fecundius, Cic.: a f. (child-bearing) wife, f. uxor, Hor. S. 2, 5, 31: v. fertile. 2. frūgĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum (actually yielding fruit): not all fields are f. which are cultivated, agri non omnes f. sunt qui coluntur, Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13: Quint.: f. harvests, f. messes, Ov. Fig.: all philosophy is f. and productive, tota philosophia f. et fructuosa (est), Cic. Off. 3, 2, init. 3. fructuōsus (actually yielding fruit in abundance): a field however fertile cannot be f. without cultivation, ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fr. esse non potest, Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13: Caes.: f. vine-shoots, fr. palmites, Col. 5, 5, med.: v. productive. Fig.: advantageous, q. v. 4. fructuārius (fruit-bearing as opp. to bearing merely leaves or flowers): a f. vine-shoot, palmes f., Col. 5, 6, ad fin.: Plin.: f. eyes (buds) of the vine, f. oculi vitis, Col. 3, 18: f. branches of the olive, f. rami oleae, Col. 5, 9, ad fin. 5. fertĭlis, e (which denotes capacity for fruitfulness, not actual bearing of fruit: v. supr. 3): v. fertile. 6. fĕrax, ācis: (strictly = fertilis, but chiefly used of lands actually productive): to render Egypt more f., Aegyptum ut feraciorem redderet, Suet.: f. plants, f. plantae, Virg.: Cic.: v. fertile. 7. fētus (= fecundus, but chiefly poet.): v. teeming. 8. fructĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum: Col. 9. ūber: v. fertile, productive. 10. fēlix, īcis (poet.): f. boughs, f. rami, Hor.