productivus

Latin

Etymology

prōdūcō (“I lead forth”, “I prolong”, perfect passive participial stem: prōduct-) +‎ -īvus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proː.dukˈtiː.u̯us/, [proːd̪ʊkˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.dukˈti.vus/, [prod̪ukˈt̪iːvus]

Adjective

prōductīvus (feminine prōductīva, neuter prōductīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (of words) fit for prolongation or lengthening
   • c. 550 CE, Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica 1.14
2. (Late Latin, grammar) productive

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lactantius Placidus to this entry?)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	prōductīvus	prōductīva	prōductīvum		prōductīvī	prōductīvae	prōductīva
genitive	prōductīvī	prōductīvae	prōductīvī		prōductīvōrum	prōductīvārum	prōductīvōrum
dative	prōductīvō	prōductīvae	prōductīvō		prōductīvīs
accusative	prōductīvum	prōductīvam	prōductīvum		prōductīvōs	prōductīvās	prōductīva
ablative	prōductīvō	prōductīvā	prōductīvō		prōductīvīs
vocative	prōductīve	prōductīva	prōductīvum		prōductīvī	prōductīvae	prōductīva

Derived terms

• prōductīvitās

Descendants

• → Catalan: productiu
• → English: productive
• → French: productif
• → Friulian: produtîf
• → Italian: produttivo
• → Galician: produtivo
• → German: produktiv
• → Piedmontese: produtiv
• → Portuguese: produtivo
• → Romanian: productiv
• → Russian: продукти́вный (produktívnyj)
• → Spanish: productivo

References

• “prōductīvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prōductīvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,246/3.
• “productívitas” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers