prolificate

English

Etymology

See prolific.

Verb

prolificate (third-person singular simple present prolificates, present participle prolificating, simple past and past participle prolificated)

1. (dated, transitive) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
   • 1970 March, R. W. Buntenbach, “A generalized circuit model for multiwinding inductive devices”, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics:

     ...it enables simultaneous and self-consistent treatment of the magnetic circuit together with the associated purely electrical circuits and should prolificate the understanding and usage of electromagnetic components and systems.

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     A greater difficulty, in the doctrine of eggs, is, how the sperm of the cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful...

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

prolificate

1. inflection of prolificare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

prolificate f pl

1. feminine plural of prolificato