sterilis

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“sterile”). Related to Ancient Greek στεῖρα (steîra, “heifer; barren woman”) and German Sterke (“heifer”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sterilis (neuter sterile); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. barren, sterile
  2. unprofitable, futile

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative sterilis sterile sterilēs sterilia
genitive sterilis sterilium
dative sterilī sterilibus
accusative sterilem sterile sterilēs
sterilīs 		sterilia
ablative sterilī sterilibus
vocative sterilis sterile sterilēs sterilia

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Franco-Provençal: êterlo

Borrowings:

References

  • “sterilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sterilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sterilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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