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61Productiveness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Productiveness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 productiveness productiveness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 fecundity fecundity fertility luxuriance uberty| GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 pregnancy pregnancy pullulation …
62felicity — [14] Felicity and its relatives felicitous [18] and felicitate [17] all come ultimately from Latin fēlīx. This originally meant ‘fruitful’ (it is probably related to English fecund and foetus) but by classical times had progressed semantically… …
63foetus — [14] Foetus comes from Latin fētus ‘giving birth, offspring’, which also gave English fawn ‘young deer’. It was a noun use of the adjective fētus ‘pregnant, productive’, from whose derivative effētus English got effete. Probably it was related to …
64epithelium — 1748, Mod.L. (Ruysch), from Gk. epi “upon” (see EPI (Cf. epi )) + thele “teat, nipple” (see FECUND (Cf. fecund)). Related: Epithelial …
65fecundity — early 15c., from L. fecunditatem (nom. fecunditas) “fruitfulness, fertility,” from fecundus (see FECUND (Cf. fecund)) …
66felicity — late 14c., from O.Fr. felicite (14c.) happiness, from L. felicitatem (nom. felicitas) happiness, fertility, from felix (gen. felicis) happy, fortunate, fruitful, fertile, from L. root *fe , equivalent of PIE *dhe(i) to suck, suckle, produce,… …
67fellatio — 1887, from L. fellatus, pp. of fellare to suck, from PIE root *dhe(i) (see FECUND (Cf. fecund)). The sexual partner performing fellatio is a fellator; if female, a fellatrice or fellatrix …
68felon — late 13c., from O.Fr. felon evil doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, the Devil (9c.), from M.L. fellonem (nom. fello) evil doer, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frank. *fillo, *filljo person who whips or beats, scourger (Cf. O.H.G. fillen to whip… …
69feminine — mid 14c., of the female sex, from O.Fr. femenin (12c.) feminine, female; with feminine qualities, effeminate, from L. femininus feminine (in the grammatical sense at first), from femina woman, female, lit. she who suckles, from root of felare to… …
70fennel — (n.) O.E. fenol, finul, perhaps via (or influenced by) O.Fr. fenoil or directly from V.L. fenuculum, from L. feniculum, dim. of fenum, faenum hay, probably lit. produce (see FECUND (Cf. fecund)). Apparently so called from its hay like appearance… …
