Etymology

fructify

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Today it means: To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas. Full definition →

Old French fructefier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromfructefier
  2. English todayfructify

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.