Latin

Noun

fructus m ‎(genitive fructūs); fourth declension

1. enjoyment, delight, satisfaction
2. produce, product, fruit
3. profit, yield, output, income
4. (by extension) effect, result, return, reward, success

Usage notes

Please note that there is a disagreement over whether or not there is a macron on the first syllable (frūctus for fructus).

Inflection

Fourth declension.

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Participle

fructus m ‎(feminine fructa, neuter fructum); first/second declension

1. enjoyed, having derived pleasure from

Inflection

First/second declension.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fructus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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