fitness

English

Etymology

From fit +‎ -ness, 16th century, physical sense from 1935.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtnəs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪtnəs

Noun

fitness (usually uncountable, plural fitnesses)

1. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
2. The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.

3. (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
4. (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.

Synonyms

• (cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique): beauty, health
• (condition of being suitable): strength, suitability, competence, capability

Antonyms

• unfitness
• (cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique): flab, sloth
• (ability to perform): weakness

Derived terms

• warrant of fitness

Translations

condition of being fit

• Finnish: sopivuus (fi)
• French: condition physique
• German: Fitness (de) f

• Macedonian: фитнес m (fitnes)
• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ), го́дность (ru) f (gódnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: dobra kondicija f

cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique

• Arabic: صِحَّة‎ (ar) f (ṣiḥḥa) (health)
• Bulgarian: фитнес m (fitnes)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健康 (zh) (jiànkāng) (health), 健身 (zh) (jiànshēn)

• Danish: egnethed c
• Finnish: kuntoilu (fi), fitness (fi)
• French: fitness (fr) m
• German: Fitness (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (usþrōþeins)
• Hebrew: כשר‎ (he) m, כשר גופני‎

• Irish: oiriúint f, oiriúnacht f
• Japanese: 健康 (ja) (けんこう, kenkō) (health), フィットネス (fitonesu)
• Latvian: vingrums m, fitness m
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: egnethet, (dialectal) eignahet f or m

• Polish: fitness (pl) m
• Portuguese: fitness (pt) m
• Russian: хоро́шая физи́ческая фо́рма f (xoróšaja fizíčeskaja fórma), фи́тнес (ru) m (fítnɛs), здоро́вье (ru) n (zdoróvʹje) (health)
• Serbo-Croatian: fitnes m
• Spanish: aptitud (es) f, (ARG) ámbito (es) m

ability to perform

• Bulgarian: годност (bg) f (godnost), способност (bg) f (sposobnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 适合 (zh) (shìhé)

• Czech: vhodnost f
• Finnish: kunto (fi), kyky (fi)

• German: Tauglichkeit (de) f, Zweckmäßigkeit (de) f
• Japanese: 適当 (ja) (てきとう, tekitō)
• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ), го́дность (ru) f (gódnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: kondicija (sh) f
• Spanish: capacidad (es) f, nivel físico m
• Ukrainian: прида́тність f (prydátnistʹ)

Anagrams

• infests, stefins

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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfitnesː/, [ˈfit̪ne̞s̠ː]
• Rhymes: -itnesː
• Syllabification: fit‧ness

Noun

fitness

1. fitness (a type of fitness sport)

Declension

Inflection of fitness (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		fitness	fitnessit
genitive		fitnessin	fitnessien fitnesseiden fitnesseitten
partitive		fitnessiä	fitnesseitä fitnessejä
illative		fitnessiin	fitnesseihin
		singular	plural
nominative		fitness	fitnessit
accusative	nom.	fitness	fitnessit
	gen.	fitnessin
genitive		fitnessin	fitnessien fitnesseiden fitnesseitten
partitive		fitnessiä	fitnesseitä fitnessejä
inessive		fitnessissä	fitnesseissä
elative		fitnessistä	fitnesseistä
illative		fitnessiin	fitnesseihin
adessive		fitnessillä	fitnesseillä
ablative		fitnessiltä	fitnesseiltä
allative		fitnessille	fitnesseille
essive		fitnessinä	fitnesseinä
translative		fitnessiksi	fitnesseiksi
instructive		—	fitnessein
abessive		fitnessittä	fitnesseittä
comitative		—	fitnesseineen

Possessive forms of fitness (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	fitnessini	fitnessimme
2nd person	fitnessisi	fitnessinne
3rd person	fitnessinsä

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fit.nɛs/

• Audio (Belgium)

  (file)

Noun

fitness m (uncountable)

1. (physical) fitness

Further reading

• “fitness”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfit.nɛs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -itnɛs
• Syllabification: fit‧ness

Noun

fitness m inan

1. aerobics or similar physical exercises

Declension

Declension of fitness

	singular
nominative	fitness
genitive	fitnessu
dative	fitnessowi
accusative	fitness
instrumental	fitnessem
locative	fitnessie
vocative	fitnessie

Further reading

• fitness in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fitness in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfit͡ʃ.nes/

Noun

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
2. (artificial intelligence) fitness (degree of appropriateness of an answer in a genetic algorithm)

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

Noun

fitness n (uncountable)

1. fitness

Declension

declension of fitness (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fitness	fitnessul
genitive/dative	(unui) fitness	fitnessului
vocative	fitnessule

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Spanish

Noun

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)