Etymograph

English

infecundity

Infecundity comes from Latin infecunditas ‘unfruitfulness, unproductiveness’, from fēcundus ‘fertile, productive’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- ‘to suckle, nurse’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁(y)-‘to suckle, nurse’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēcundus‘fertile, productive’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfēcundus‘unfruitful, infertile’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinfecunditas‘unfruitfulness, unproductiveness’
  5. Englishtodayinfecundity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰeh₁(y)-‘to suckle, nurse’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēcundus‘fertile, productive’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnfēcundus‘unfruitful, infertile’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinfecunditas‘unfruitfulness, unproductiveness’
  5. Englishtodayinfecundity

Formed from in- + fecundity

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- ‘to suckle, nurse’

Latin fēcundus ‘fertile or fruitful’

Latin fēcunditās ‘fruitfulness, fertility’

English fecundity

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- ‘to suckle, nurse’

female, doe, feminist, feminism, fetus, tyre, dai, fawn, femme, felicity, filial, femininity, effeminate, fellatio, dahi, 30 more

Today it means

noun Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- / infecundity

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