Noun
fructus (uncountable)
- (law, historical) In Ancient Roman law, any product originating either from a natural source (such as fruits grown or animals bred) or from legal transactions (e.g. interest on a loan).
Noun
frūctus m (genitive frūctūs); fourth declension
- enjoyment, delight, satisfaction
- Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, voluptās, laetitia, dēlectātiō
- Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, trīstitia, tristitās
- produce, product, fruit
- Synonyms: seges, prōventus, frūx
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.671–672:
- fēcundior annus prōvenit, et frūctum terra pecūsque ferunt
- A more fertile year proceeds, and the land and the cattle bring forth produce.
- profit, yield, output, income
- (by extension) effect, result, return, reward, success
- Synonyms: successus, frūx, effectus, ēventus, exitus, prōventus
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.31.16:
- cōnsīderāvit agrum et emit eum dē frūctū manuum suārum plantāvit vīneam
- She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: frûto
- Old Lombard: frug
- Old Piedmontese: fruyt
- Romagnol: fròtta
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Navarro-Aragonese: fruto, fructo, fruyto
- Old French: fruit
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fruito, fruita
- Old Spanish: frucho, frucha
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Venetian: fruto
- → Albanian: fryt (via Vulgar Latin), frutë (via Classical Latin)
- → Aromanian: fructu
- → Asturian: frutu, fruta
- → Basque: fruitu
- → Baltic Romani: frukto
- → Greek: φρούτο (froúto)
- → Leonese: frutu, fruta
- → Polish: frukt
- → Proto-Brythonic: *fruɨθ (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *fruht (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: fruct
- → Spanish: fruto
- → Ukrainian: фрукт (frukt)
References
- “fructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fructus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fructus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fructus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
- (great) advantage accrues to me from this: fructus ex hac re redundant in or ad me
- I am benefited by a thing: aliquid ad meum fructum redundat
- to reap: fructus demetere or percipere
- to harvest crops: fructus condere (N. D. 2. 62. 156)
- “fructus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fructus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin