Fecund

Definitions: Fecund

Fecund

Adjective

1. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation.

2. Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination".

Date "fecund" was first used: sometime around 1425. (references)

Synonyms: Fecund

Synonyms: fertile (adj), prolific (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Productiveness	Adjective: productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fecund

English words defined with "fecund": fertile ♦ prolific. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fecund": Herculean Knot. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fecund" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (fecund, prolific, rich, voluminous).

"Fecund" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fecund" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	35	58,339

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "fecund": divinely-fecund.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "fecund"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prodhimtar (manufacturing, production, productive), pjellor (fat, fertile, fruitful, genital, loamy, mellow, pinguid, prolific, rich). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثير الثمر, ‏منتج (creator, fruitful, procreator, producer, productive, prolific), ‏ولود (fertile, pregnant, prolific), ‏خصب (fat, fertile, fertility, fruitful, lush, pregnant, prodigal, prodigality, productive, profuse, prolific, rich). (various references)

Bulgarian		плодороден (benign, benignant, corny, fat, fertile, fruitful, generous, hearty, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank, rich), плодовит (copious, exuberant, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, productive, prolific, reproductive, voluminous). (various references)

Chinese		多产 (Prolific, Prolifical). (various references)

Czech		úrodný (fertile, fruitful, generous, good, productive, rich). (various references)

Finnish		sikiäväinen (prolific), sikiävä (prolific). (various references)

French		fécond (fertile). (various references)

Greek		γόνιμοσ (fertile, prolific). (various references)

Hebrew		פור�" (fertile, fruitful, productive, prolific). (various references)

Hungarian		termékeny (benign, fat, fertile, fraught, fruitful, luxuriant, plentiful, prolific, prolifical, rich, spawning). (various references)

Italian		fecondo (fertile, fruitful, prolific, voluminous). (various references)

Korean		다산하�". (various references)

Manx		toyrtoil. (various references)

Norwegian		fruktbar (fertile, fruitful). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecundfay

Portuguese		turvo (blear, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dregs, foul, milky, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid). (various references)

Romanian		fecund (prolific, rich, voluminous). (various references)

Russian		плодовитый (fruitful, philoprogenitive, productive, proliferous, prolific). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		produktivan (productive), plodan (arable, fertile, fruitful, pinguid, progenitive, prolific, rank). (various references)

Spanish		fecundo (bountiful, fertile, formidable, pregnant, productive, prolific, rankly). (various references)

Swedish		fruktbar (conceptional, conceptive, fat, fertile, fruitful, fruitfull, productive, prolific). (various references)

Thai		อุ�"มสมบูร�"์ (exuberant, rich). (various references)

Turkish		verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fat, fertile, fruitful, generous, grateful, high speed, loamy, pregnant, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, yielding), doğurgan (fertile, procreant, procreative, prolific), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), bereketli (abundant, copious, exuberant, fat, fertile, fruitful, generous, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rank, rich). (various references)

Ukranian		родючий (battle, benign, fertile, fruitful, generous, luxuriant, productive, rich), плодючий. (various references)

Vietnamese		mắn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fecundus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fecund": fecundate, fecundated, fecundates, fecundating, fecundation, fecundations, fecundities, fecundity. (additional references)
	Words ending with "fecund": infecund. (additional references)
	Words containing "fecund": superfecundation, superfecundations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fecund" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: econd, Ekrund, Facundo, fecid, feckund, fecon, fecum, fecuned, fevum, Fremund, fucund. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fecund" (pronounced 'Fec"und'): Facund, Gerund, Infecund. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-n-u"
	-1 letter: dunce, unfed.
	-2 letters: cued, duce, dune, fend, feud, fund, nude, unde.
	-3 letters: cud, cue, den, due, dun, ecu, end, fed, fen, feu, fud, fun.
	-4 letters: de, ed, ef, en, ne, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-f-n-u"
	+1 letter: defunct.
	+2 letters: confused, confuted, flounced, frounced, furnaced, infecund, uncuffed, unfenced, unforced.
	+3 letters: cofounded, cofounder, fecundate, fecundity, fungicide, unfocused, unfrocked.
	+4 letters: cofounders, configured, confounded, confounder, confusedly, defocusing, fecundated, fecundates, fricandeau, functioned, fungicides, handcuffed, influenced, unaffected, uncodified, uncoffined, unconfined, unconfused, undercroft, unenforced, unfocussed, uninfected.
	+5 letters: centrifuged, confounders, countrified, countryfied, defocussing, fecundating, fecundation, fecundities, fraudulence, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, genuflected, uncalcified, uncertified, unclarified, unconfessed, unconfirmed, undercrofts, uninflected, unspecified.
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