fecund

英 ['fek(?)nd; 'fi?k-] 美['fik?nd]

英英釋義實用場景例句

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

名詞:?fecundity;

Fecund:?肥墾地----肥沃的，多產的。

fecund 多產的

來自拉丁詞根fe, 吮吸，吸奶，乳汁，擬聲詞，詞源同female, felicity. 原義為多奶的，引申詞義多產的，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."

2. It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.: 現在已經很清楚19世紀90年代是多么超乎尋常、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。