Fructuosity
/ˌfrʌk.tjuˈɒs.ɪ.ti/noun
The quality or state of bearing fruit or being fruitful.
Did you know?Fructuosity comes from the same Latin root as fruit, and in older religious and poetic language it could imply not just harvest, but blessed productivity and abundance.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bʰerǵʰ-
“to be bright, to grow, to bear”
Latin
Latin
frux
“fruit, produce, crops”
Latin
Latin
fructuōsus
“fruitful, productive”
Middle English
English
fructuosity
“fruitfulness, productiveness”
Modern English
English
fructuosity
“the quality of being fruitful or productive”