English
fructive
Fructive comes from Latin frūctus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūctus
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fructife
- Englishearliest quotation 1843fructive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrūctus
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fructife
- Englishearliest quotation 1843fructive
Earliest quotation: 1843, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: A Tragedy: “Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to…”
Linked words
through Latin frūctus
Today it means
adj fructuous; fruitful
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin frūctus / fructive