frugifer Latin · revision 9775

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Ennius|origins=la frūx, la ferō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfruː.ɡɪ.fɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfruː.d͡ʒi.fer]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''frūgifer''' (feminine frūgifera, neuter frūgiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

+ Ennius has an archaic genitive ''frūgiferāī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|frūx|-fer|t1=fruit, crops|t2=bearing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) ⟨-fer⟩ is from [[m|la|ferō|t=to carry]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Ennius.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Ennius 204–169 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant producing fruit or crops, fruitful, fertile, productive, of land in Cicero, Livy and Ovid, and figuratively of philosophy in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant fruit-bearing, fruitful, fertile.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for productive land, seed and seasons, figuratively, and as a noun.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Producing fruit or crops, [[m|en|fruitful]], fertile.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[frūx]]

+ * [[frūgī]]

+ * [[ferō]]

+ * [[frūctus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}