fecund

英 [ˈfek.ənd]      美 [ˈfek.ənd]
  • adj. 肥沃的;多产的;丰饶的;生殖力旺盛的
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Fecund: 肥垦地----肥沃的,多产的。
fecund 多产的

来自拉丁词根fe, 吮吸,吸奶,乳汁,拟声词,词源同female, felicity. 原义为多奶的,引申词义多产的,肥沃的。

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.
大动物没有小动物繁殖能力强。
2. It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.
现在已经很清楚19世纪90年代是多么超乎寻常、成就斐然的10年了。
3. The pampas are still among the most fecund lands in the world.
南美大草原仍然是世界上最肥沃的土地之一。
4. This is a fecund animal.
这是一只多产的动物.
5. They have a fecund soil.
他们有肥沃的土地.

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