Fructiferous
/ˌfrʌk.tɪˈfɪə.rəs/noun
Bearing fruit or producing an abundance of fruit; productive.
Did you know?Fructiferous is built from Latin fructus (“fruit, enjoyment, profit”) + ferre (“to bear, carry”), the same deep root behind words about carrying, enduring, and producing across Indo-European languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bher-
“to carry, bear, bring”
Latin
Latin
fructus
“fruit, produce, enjoyment, profit”
Latin
Latin
ferre
“to bear, carry”
Late Latin
Latin
fructifer
“fruit-bearing, productive”
16th Century
English
fructiferous
“bearing fruit; fruitful, productive”
Modern English
English
fructiferous
“bearing fruit or producing fruit; productive”