fertile Copy link Outline 1. fertĭlis, e (capable of yielding abundance)2. fēcundus (productive; actually yielding abundantly)3. fĕrax, ācis (= fertilis; same constr.)4. ūber, ĕris (abundantly productive)5. fētus6. ŏpīmus • fertile: 1. fertĭlis, e (capable of yielding abundance): rich and f. lands, agri opimi et f., Cic.: the most f. parts of Germany, fertilissima Germaniae loca, Caes.: with gen., abl., or acc. with ad: a land f. in corn and cattle, tellus frugum pecorisque f., Hor.: Liv.: a land f. in trees, ager arboribus f., Plin.: a district f. in every product, tractus ad omnia f., Plin. (in Cic. fertilis appears always to be used absol.). Fig.: a f. bosom (of genius), f. pectus, Ov. Pont. 4, 2, 11. 2. fēcundus (productive; actually yielding abundantly): drainage, whereby the soil is rendered much more f., fossiones agri, quibus fit multo terra fecundior, Cic. Sen. 15, 53: usu. with gen., also abl.: a land f. in mineral wealth, tellus metallorum f., Plin. (in Cic. always absol.). Fig.: ages f. in crime, f. secula culpae, Hor.: love is most f. both in honey and gall, amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus, Pl. Cist. 1, 1, 70. 3. fĕrax, ācis (= fertilis; same constr.): most f. lands, feracissimi agri, Caes.: Cic.: Iberia f. in poisons, Iberia venenorum f., Hor. Fig.: nothing can be more f. than the mind, nihil est feracius ingeniis, Cic. Or. 15, 48. 4. ūber, ĕris (abundantly productive): a f. soil, u. solum, Liv. 29, 35, fin. (where immediately before fertilissimus is used: cf. Prop. 1, 22, 10: Umbria terris fertilis uberibus, i. e. a country naturally f., and therefore richly productive): with gen.: Just. 44, 3, med. Fig.: of all the orators of his age he was the most f., oratorum ex aetate uberrimus erat, Tac. Ann. 3, 31. 5. fētus: Cic.: v. teeming, prolific. 6. ŏpīmus: a f. plain, o. campus, Liv.: v. rich. Phr.: a man f. in expedients, *homo ad res excogitandas promptus; homo versutus.