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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fertilitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛr.ti.ˈli.tas/
- Rhymes: -tas
- Hyphenation: fer‧ti‧li‧tas
Noun
fertilitas (first-person possessive fertilitasku, second-person possessive fertilitasmu, third-person possessive fertilitasnya)
- fertility:
- (uncountable, medicine) the condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
- Synonyms: fekunditas, kesuburan
- (countable, demography) the birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- Synonym: kesuburan
- (countable, demography) the average number of births per woman within a population.
- Synonym: kesuburan
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From fertilis + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
fertilitās f (genitive fertilitātis); third declension
- fruitfulness, fertility
- Synonym: ūbertās
- abundance
- Synonyms: abundantia, affluentia, cōpia, ūbertās, ūber, magnitūdō
- Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “fertilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fertilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fertilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.