Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fetiferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fetif-er-ous
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing young; fruitful, productive.

Example Sentences

"[…]all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures[…]"
"Fruit somewhat globose, usually fetiferous, with a sweet pulp."
"Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]"
"The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta."
"Nepantla is indeed gestational and fetiferous, but not of some postliminal existence, for there is no postliminal existence available."

Etymology

From Latin fētifer (“causing fruitfulness”) + -ous, from fētus (“pregnant, fruitful”) + -fer (“bearing, carrying, bringing”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: fētifer, *dʰeh₁(y)-
Suffix: fētus

Inflected Forms

more fetiferous (comparative) most fetiferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does fetiferous mean?: Producing young; fruitful, productive.
Where does fetiferous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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