fructificatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin frūctus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ficō

Latin frūctificō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin frūctificātiō

From frūctificō (“to bear fruit”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fruːk.tɪ.fɪˈkaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fruk.ti.fiˈkat.t͡si.o]

Noun

frūctificātiō f (genitive frūctificātiōnis); third declension

1. a bearing of fruit, fructification

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	frūctificātiō	frūctificātiōnēs
genitive	frūctificātiōnis	frūctificātiōnum
dative	frūctificātiōnī	frūctificātiōnibus
accusative	frūctificātiōnem	frūctificātiōnēs
ablative	frūctificātiōne	frūctificātiōnibus
vocative	frūctificātiō	frūctificātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: fructification
• French: fructification
• Italian: fruttificazione
• Spanish: fructificación

References

• “fructificatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fructificatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.