English
fruticant
Fruticant comes from Latin fruticans ‘putting forth shoots, sprouting, bushy’, and goes back to frutex ‘shrub’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrutex‘shrub’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfruticare‘to become bushy’next step skipped: Latin fruticō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfruticans‘putting forth shoots, sprouting, bushy’present participle of fruticare
- Englishearliest quotation 1664fruticant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrutex‘shrub’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfruticare‘to become bushy’next step skipped: Latin fruticō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfruticans‘putting forth shoots, sprouting, bushy’present participle of fruticare
- Englishearliest quotation 1664fruticant
Earliest quotation: 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva: “These we shall divide into the Greater and more…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‘to boil, brew, sprout?’
brand, burn, bread, purple, brew, bourbon, broth, bourne, brim, fervor, fervent, brunt, ferment, bren, broil, effervescent, porphyry, briny, purpura, 39 more
Today it means
adj Full of shoots.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin frutex / fruticant