fertilis

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Latin

Etymology

From ferō (“to carry, bear”) +‎ -ilis (suffix forming adjectives), with -t- probably by analogy to other deverbal adjectives in -ilis, many of which were built on past participle stems.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

fertilis (neuter fertile, superlative fertilissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. fruitful, fertile
    Synonyms: fecundus, frūgifer, ūber, opīmus, dīves, dītis
  2. productive

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative fertilis fertile fertilēs fertilia
genitive fertilis fertilium
dative fertilī fertilibus
accusative fertilem fertile fertilēs
fertilīs 		fertilia
ablative fertilī fertilibus
vocative fertilis fertile fertilēs fertilia

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ferō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 214

Further reading

  • “fertilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fertilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fertilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to leave fertile ground untilled: agros fertiles deserere
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