infertile

English

Etymology

From Middle French infertile, from Late Latin infertilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)taɪl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɝtɪl/

Adjective

infertile (comparative more infertile, superlative most infertile)

1. Not fertile.

   The soil was too infertile to grow crops.

   The couple sought medical advice for infertile conditions.

   Deserts are often infertile and unable to support vegetation.

Antonyms

• fertile

Derived terms

• infertilely
• infertileness

Related terms

• infertility

Translations

not fertile

• Albanian: shterp (sq)
• Arabic: عَقِيم (ʕaqīm)
• Asturian: maneru, esmaniáu, ermu (ast), estéril (ast), maníu, machorru, forru
• 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 (gl)
• German: unfruchtbar (de)
• Greek: άγονος (el) (ágonos)

  Ancient: στεῖρος (steîros), ἄγονος (ágonos)

• Hindi: बाँझ (hi) (bāñjh, literally “infertile woman”), नपुंसक (hi) (infertile man)
• 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), قیراچ (kıraç), چوراق (çorak) (of places)
• Plautdietsch: fooss, fruchtlooss
• Portuguese: infértil (pt)
• Romanian: infertil (ro)
• Russian: беспло́дный (ru) (besplódnyj), неплодоро́дный (ru) (neplodoródnyj)
• Sanskrit: वन्ध्य (sa) (vandhya)
• Slovene: neploden
• Spanish: estéril (es), infértil (es)
• Tatar: qısır
• Turkish: kısır (tr), steril (tr)
• Uyghur: قىسىر (qisir)
• Uzbek: qisir (uz)

Anagrams

• interfile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfertilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɛʁ.til/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧fer‧tile

Adjective

infertile (plural infertiles)

1. infertile

   Antonym: fertile

Related terms

• infertilité

See also

• stérile

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Adjective

infertile

1. inflection of infertil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfɛr.ti.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛrtile
• Hyphenation: in‧fèr‧ti‧le

Adjective

infertile m or f by sense (plural infertili)

1. infertile
2. barren

Antonyms

• fertile

Related terms

• infertilità

See also

• sterile