- foetura
- fētūra ( foet- ), ae, f. [2. fetus], a bringing forth, bearing or dropping of young, a breeding (rare but class.).I.Lit.:B.
secunda pars est de fetura. Nunc appello feturam a conceptu ad partum... Altera pars est in fetura, quae sint observanda, quod alia alio tempore parere soleat, etc.,
Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 18 sq.:humana pastorum,
id. ib. 2, 10, 6:aetas (bovis) feturae habilis,
fit for breeding, Verg. G. 3, 62:si fetura gregem suppleverit,
id. E. 7, 36.—Transf.1.Concr., young, offspring, brood: alios dies ad ubertatem lactis feturaeque servanto, * Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20:2.minor,
Ov. M. 13, 827:optima gallinarum ante vernum aequinoctium,
Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 150.—Transf., of young vines:* II.ut omnis fetura sub eo exeat,
Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 179.—Trop., the production of a literary work: libri nati apud me proximā feturā, Plin. H. N. praef. § 1.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.