fetus.
offspring/young (animals); children (of a parent); brood/litter; fetus/fetus, young while still in the womb; embryo (Cal); |birth/bringing forth young; laying (egg); bearing young, breeding; conception; ||fruit of plant; produce/crop; offshoot/branch/sucker/sapling; bearing fruit;
Meaning & usage
pregnant, full of young
of one who has recently given birth, of one that has newly delivered; nursing
fruitful, fertile, productive, teeming with, full of, big
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *fētos, from earlier *θētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-to-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”) + *-tós, see also Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck, suckle”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem, “to suck mother's milk”), Lithuanian žįsti (“to suckle, nurse”), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti, “to breastfeed, suckle”).
a bearing, birth, bringing forth
offspring, young, progeny
fruit, product; bearing, produce
growth, production
a fetus
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *fētus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-tu-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”) + *-tus; alternatively, formed within Italic, equivalent to a verb *feō + *-tus (Latin -tus (forming action nouns)).
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