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English
Etymology
Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:productive
- (biology)
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- Synonym: (archaic) childing
- Antonyms: barren, infertile, sterile
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.
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Translations
of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops
- Arabic: خَصِب (ḵaṣib)
- Asturian: fértil
- Azerbaijani: münbit, məhsuldar, bərəkətli
- Basque: emankor (eu)
- Breton: strujus (br)
- Bulgarian: плодороден (bg) (plodoroden)
- Catalan: fèrtil (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 肥沃 (zh) (féiwò)
- Czech: úrodný (cs) m
- Danish: frugtbar (da)
- Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl)
- Finnish: viljava (fi), hedelmällinen (fi)
- French: fertile (fr)
- Galician: fértil (gl)
- Georgian: ნოყიერი (noq̇ieri)
- German: fruchtbar (de), geil (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: γόνιμος (gónimos)
- Hindi: उपजाऊ (hi) (upjāū)
- Hungarian: termékeny (hu)
- Ido: fertila (io)
- Indonesian: subur (id)
- Irish: torthúil, méiniúil, arúil, méith
- Japanese: 肥沃な (ja) (hiyoku na)
- Korean: 걸다 (ko) (geolda), 비옥(肥沃)하다 (biokhada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بەپیت (bepît)
- Latin: ferax, fēcundus, fertilis
- Latvian: auglīgs, ražīgs
- Lithuanian: derlingas
- Malay: subur (ms)
- Maori: haumako, mōmona
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fruktbar (no)
- Nynorsk: fruktbar
- Old English: wæstmbǣre
- Persian: حاصلخیز (fa)
- Plautdietsch: fruchtboa
- Polish: żyzny (pl)
- Portuguese: fértil (pt)
- Russian: плодоро́дный (ru) (plodoródnyj)
- Slovene: ploden (sl), plodovit
- Spanish: fértil (es), feraz (es)
- Swedish: bördig (sv)
- Thai: อุดมสมบูรณ์, อุดม (th) (ù-dom), สมบูรณ์ (th) (sǒm-buun)
- Turkish: verimli (tr), bitek (tr), mahsuldar (tr), feyyaz (tr), gür (tr)
- Ukrainian: родю́чий (uk) (rodjúčyj)
- Urdu: زرخیز (zarxaiz)
- Vietnamese: màu mỡ (vi)
- Yiddish: פֿרוכטבאַר (frukhtbar)
- Zazaki: mexel, xesad n
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of one’s imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific
capable of developing past the egg stage
Translations to be checked
Further reading
- “fertile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “fertile”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “fertile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin fertilem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fertile (plural fertiles)
- fertile
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin fertilem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fertile (plural fertili)
- fertile
- Antonym: infertile
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- fertile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Adjective
fertile
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of fertilis