fertilitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fertilitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛr.ti.ˈli.tas/
• Rhymes: -tas
• Hyphenation: fer‧ti‧li‧tas

Noun

fertilitas (plural fertilitas-fertilitas)

1. fertility:
   1. (uncountable, medicine) the condition, or the degree, of being fertile

      Synonyms: fekunditas, kesuburan

   2. (countable, demography) the birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year

      Synonym: kesuburan

   3. (countable, demography) the average number of births per woman within a population

      Synonym: kesuburan

Further reading

• “fertilitas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti

Proto-Italic *ferō

Latin ferō

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin fertilis

Latin -tās

Latin fertilitās

From fertilis + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɛrˈtɪ.lɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ferˈtiː.li.tas]

Noun

fertilitās f (genitive fertilitātis); third declension

1. fruitfulness, fertility

   Synonym: ūbertās

2. abundance

   Synonyms: abundantia, affluentia, cōpia, ūbertās, ūber, magnitūdō

   Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fertilitās	fertilitātēs
genitive	fertilitātis	fertilitātum
dative	fertilitātī	fertilitātibus
accusative	fertilitātem	fertilitātēs
ablative	fertilitāte	fertilitātibus
vocative	fertilitās	fertilitātēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: fertilitat
• → French: fertilité
• → Galician: fertilidade
• → Italian: fertilità
• → Portuguese: fertilidade
• → Spanish: fertilidad
• → Indonesian: fertilitas (learned)

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.