productivity

Meanings

1. The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
2. The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
3. The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
4. The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Late Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Late Latin dūcō Late Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Late Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English productivity From productive + -ity.