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English
Etymology
From Middle French infertile, from Late Latin infertilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
infertile (comparative more infertile, superlative most infertile)
- Not fertile.
Antonyms
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Translations
not fertile
- Arabic: عَقِيم (ʕaqīm)
- Azerbaijani: barsız, sonsuz (az), qısır
- Bulgarian: безплоден (bg) (bezploden), неплодороден (bg) (neplodoroden)
- Catalan: infèrtil
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瘠薄 (zh) (jíbó), 不毛 (zh) (bùmáo), (unable to reproduce) 不生育的 (bù shēngyù de), 不孕 (zh) (bùyùn)
- Dutch: onvruchtbaar (nl)
- Esperanto: malfekunda, sterila
- Finnish: hedelmätön (fi), maho (fi) (animal), karu (fi) (land)
- French: stérile (fr)
- Galician: maniño, infértil
- German: unfruchtbar (de)
- Greek: άγονος (el) (ágonos)
- Ancient: στεῖρος (steîros), ἄγονος (ágonos)
- Indonesian: mandul (id)
- Interlingua: infertile, sterile
- Irish: seasc (land), neamhthorthúil (land), aimrid (woman)
- Italian: infertile (it), sterile (it)
- Japanese: 不妊 (ja) (ふにん, funin), 不毛 (ja) (ふもう, fumō)
- Kabuverdianu: ronkodju
- Khalaj: qısır
- Korean: 메마른 (ko) (memareun)
- Latin: infertilis, sterilis
- Malay: mandul (ms), tandus (ms)
- Manx: neuvessoil
- Maori: pākoko (unable to reproduce), pukupā (unable to reproduce), pakoko (unable to reproduce), matapā (unable to reproduce), tītōhea (of soil), wharepā (unable to reproduce), tohetea (of soil), pāhoahoa (of soil), hūiki (of soil)
- Middle English: bareyne
- Norman: întchulte
- Ottoman Turkish: قیصیر (kısır)
- Plautdietsch: fooss, fruchtlooss
- Portuguese: infértil (pt)
- Romanian: infertil (ro)
- Russian: беспло́дный (ru) (besplódnyj), неплодоро́дный (ru) (neplodoródnyj)
- Slovene: neploden
- Spanish: estéril (es), infértil (es)
- Tatar: qısır
- Turkish: kısır (tr), steril (tr)
- Uyghur: قىسىر (qisir)
- Uzbek: qisir (uz)
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnfertilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
infertile (plural infertiles)
- infertile
- Antonym: fertile
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German
Pronunciation
Adjective
infertile
- inflection of infertil:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈfɛr.ti.le/
- Rhymes: -ɛrtile
- Hyphenation: in‧fèr‧ti‧le
Adjective
infertile (plural infertili)
- infertile
- barren
Antonyms
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