prolific

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First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: плодороден (plodoroden) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Catalan: prolífic — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Chinese Mandarin: 高产的 — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Danish: frugtbar — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Dutch: vruchtbaar — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Finnish: hedelmällinen — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Finnish: satoisa — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• French: fécond — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• French: prolifique — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• German: fruchtbar — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Hebrew: פורה (poré) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Hebrew: יצרני (yatsraní) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Hebrew: שופע (shoféa) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Irish: bisiúil — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Irish: torthúil — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Italian: fecondo — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Italian: fruttifero — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Italian: prolifico — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Māori: hāwere — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Māori: huākumu — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Plautdietsch: fruchtboa — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Polish: płodny — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Portuguese: prolífico — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Portuguese: frutífero — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Portuguese: fértil — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Romanian: prolific — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Russian: плодови́тый (plodovítyj) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Russian: плодоно́сный (plodonósnyj) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Russian: урожа́йный (urožájnyj) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Russian: оби́льный (obílʹnyj) — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: plodonosan — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: плодан — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: родан — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: обилан — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: plodan — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: rodan — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: obilan — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Spanish: prolífico — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Turkish: doğurgan — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Turkish: velüt — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Turkish: bereketli — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Turkish: mahsûldar — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Turkish: verimli — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Turkish: münbit — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Welsh: epiliog — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Welsh: epilgar — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Welsh: hiliog — Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in great abundance
• Bulgarian: продуктивен (produktiven) — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Catalan: prolífic — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Danish: produktiv — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Dutch: productief — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Finnish: tuottelias — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Finnish: tuottoisa — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• French: prolifique — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• German: produktiv — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Irish: rafar — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Italian: prolifico — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Italian: produttivo — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Māori: tōnui — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Norwegian: suksessrik — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Polish: wyborowy — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Portuguese: prolífico — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Russian: плодови́тый (plodovítyj) — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Russian: продукти́вный (produktívnyj) — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: плодан — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Serbo-Croatian: plodan — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Spanish: prolífico — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Swedish: produktiv — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Turkish: bereketli — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Turkish: üretken — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Turkish: verimli — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Turkish: yediveren — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Ukrainian: продукти́вний (produktývnyj) — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Welsh: cynhyrchiol — Similarly producing results or works in abundance
• Welsh: toreithiog — Similarly producing results or works in abundance