fecund

• adj.肥沃な；多産な；豊穣な

ラテン語のfe（吸う、吸う、乳）の語源、擬音語、語源はfemale（女性）のfelicityと同じ。 原意は乳白色、派生語は多産、肥沃。

fecund

fecund: see foetus

fecund (adj.)

a 16c. Latinizing revision of the spelling of Middle English fecond (early 15c.), from Middle French fecond (Old French fecont "fruitful"), from Latin fecundus "fruitful, fertile, productive; rich, abundant," from *fe-kwondo-, suffixed form (adjectival) of Latin root *fe-, corresponding to PIE *dhe(i)- "to suck, suckle," also "produce, yield."

Cognates include: Sanskrit dhayati "sucks," dhayah "nourishing;" Greek thele "mother's breast, nipple," thelys "female, fruitful;" Old Church Slavonic dojiti "to suckle," dojilica "nurse," deti "child;" Lithuanian dele "leech;" Old Prussian dadan "milk;" Gothic daddjan "to suckle;" Old Swedish dia "suckle;" Old High German tila "female breast;" Old Irish denaim "I suck," dinu "lamb."

Also from the same Latin root come felare "to suck;" femina "woman" (*fe-mna-, literally "she who suckles"); felix "happy, auspicious, fruitful;" fetus "offspring, pregnancy;" fenum "hay" (probably literally "produce"); and probably filia/filius "daughter/son," assimilated from *felios, originally "a suckling."

1. Large animals are less fecund than small ones.

大動物は小動物ほど繁殖力がない。

2.It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890 s.

今では、1990年代がいかに普通以上に素晴らしい10年だったかがよくわかっている。

3.The pampas are still among the most fecund lands in the world.

南米の大草原は依然として世界で最も肥沃な土地の一つである。

4.This is a fecund animal.

これは多産の動物です。

5.They have a fecund soil.

彼らは肥沃な土地を持っている。