fecunditas

Latin

Etymology

From fēcundus (“fertile, fruitful”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feːˈkun.di.taːs/, [feːˈkʊn̪d̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈkun.di.tas/, [feˈkun̪d̪it̪äs]

Noun

fēcunditās f (genitive fēcunditātis); third declension

1. fruitfulness, fertility

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fēcunditās	fēcunditātēs
genitive	fēcunditātis	fēcunditātum
dative	fēcunditātī	fēcunditātibus
accusative	fēcunditātem	fēcunditātēs
ablative	fēcunditāte	fēcunditātibus
vocative	fēcunditās	fēcunditātēs

Related terms

• fēcundātor
• fēcundē
• fēcundus
• fēcundō
• fētus

Descendants

• → English: fecundity
• → French: fécondité
• → Italian: fecondità

References

• “fecunditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fecunditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fecunditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.