infructuose
English
Etymology
Adjective
infructuose (comparative more infructuose, superlative most infructuose)
- Not yielding fruit.
- (figuratively) unfruitful; unprofitable
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infructuose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
References
- infructuose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- infructuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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