fertile

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɜːtaɪl/
• (US) IPA: /ˈfɝːtəl/

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Adjective

fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)

1. (of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive
2. (biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
3. (biology) capable of developing past the egg stage
4. (of an imagination etc) productive or prolific

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:productive

Antonyms

• infertile

Related terms

• fertilisation, fertilization
• fertilise, fertilize
• fertiliser, fertilizer
• fertility, fertileness
• subfertile

Translations

(of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops

Arabic: خصب (ar) (khiSb) Basque: emankor (eu) Breton: strujus (br) Catalan: fèrtil (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 肥沃 (cmn) (féiwò) Czech: úrodný (cs) m. Danish: frugtbar (da) Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl) Finnish: viljava, hedelmällinen

German: fruchtbar (de) Japanese: 肥沃な (ja) (hiyoku-na) Kurdish: به‌پیت Latvian: auglīgs (lv), ražīgs (lv) Lithuanian: derlingas (lt) Polish: żyzny (pl) Portuguese: fértil (pt) Russian: плодородный (ru) (plodoródnyj) Slovene: ploden, plodovit Spanish: fértil (es)

(biology) capable of reproducing

Basque: ugalkor (eu), emankor (eu) Catalan: fèrtil (ca) Czech: plodný (cs) m. Danish: frugtbar (da) Finnish: hedelmällinen (fi) German: fruchtbar (de)

Latvian: auglīgs (lv) Lithuanian: vaisingas (lt) Polish: płodny Portuguese: fértil (pt) Slovene: ploden (sl) Spanish: fértil (es)

(biology) capable of developing past the egg stage

Finnish: hedelmöitynyt

Slovene: oplojen

(of an imagination etc) productive or prolific

Basque: emankor (eu) Catalan: fèrtil (ca) Danish: frugtbar (da) Finnish: tuottelias (fi), vilkas (fi)

Portuguese: fértil (pt) Slovene: ploden (sl) Spanish: fértil (es)

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Translations to be checked

Italian: fertile (1,2,4) Lithuanian: vaisinga, vaisingas Persian: باردار (bârdar) Ukrainian: родючий, родюча земля Turkish: bereketli, verimli

External links

• fertile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fertile in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• fertile at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Adjective

fertile (epicene, plural fertiles)

1. fertile

Anagrams

• flétrie
• flirtée

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Italian

Adjective

fertile m. and f. (m and f plural fertili)

1. fertile

Antonyms

• infertile

Related terms

• fertilità
• fertilizzato
• fertilizzazione
• fertilizzante

See also

• fecondo

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Latin

Adjective

fertile

1. nominative neuter singular of fertilis
2. accusative neuter singular of fertilis
3. vocative neuter singular of fertilis