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"Effete" derives from Latin "effetus," meaning "no longer fruitful," and for a brief time in English it was used to describe an animal no longer capable of producing offspring.
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_feto_, "I breed," whence also _effetus_, "having brought forth young, worn out by bearing, effete."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Now this "effeteness", the Latin root of this word is "effetus", fetus, fruitful, "More at Feminine" Impotent, sissy, faggy, Fruit "is yet another term for us" sissy boys "in American High schools.
Pak Tea House 2009
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