fructus

From Latin frūctus.

fructus (uncountable)

1. (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).

From Proto-Italic *frūktos, perfect active participle of fruor (“have the benefit of, use, enjoy”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-tó-s.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfruːk.tus/, [ˈfruːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfruk.tus/, [ˈfrukt̪us]

frūctus m (genitive frūctūs); fourth declension

1. enjoyment, delight, satisfaction

   Synonyms: gaudium, dēlicium, voluptās, laetitia, dēlectātiō

   Antonyms: maeror, maestitia, trīstitia, tristitās

2. 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.

3. profit, yield, output, income
4. (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)

Fourth-declension noun.

frūctus (feminine frūcta, neuter frūctum); first/second-declension participle

1. enjoyed, having derived pleasure from

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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