infertile

English

Etymology

From Middle French infertile, from Late Latin infertilis

Adjective

infertile (comparative more infertile, superlative most infertile)

1. not fertile

Antonyms

• fertile

Related terms

• infertility

Translations

not fertile

• 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
• Finnish: hedelmätön (fi), maho (fi) (animal), karu (fi) (land)
• French: stérile (fr) m, f
• German: unfruchtbar (de)
• Greek: άγονος (el) m (ágonos), άγονη (el) f (ágoni), άγονο (el) n (ágono)
• Interlingua: infertile, sterile
• Italian: infertile (it), sterile (it)
• Japanese: 不妊 (ふにん, funin), 不毛 (ja) (ふもう, fumō)

• Korean: 메마른 (ko) (memareun)
• Latin: infertilis m, f, infertile n, sterilis m, f, sterile n
• Malay: mandul, tandus
• Manx: neuvessoil
• Maori: pākoko (unable to reproduce)
• Norman: întchulte m, f
• Portuguese: infértil
• Romanian: infertil (ro)
• Russian: беспло́дный (ru) (besplódnyj), неплодоро́дный (ru) (neplodoródnyj)
• Slovene: neploden
• Spanish: estéril (es)

Anagrams

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French

Adjective

infertile (plural infertiles)

1. infertile

Antonyms

• fertile

Related terms

• infertilité

See also

• stérile

Further reading

• “infertile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Adjective

infertile

1. inflected form of infertil

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Italian

Adjective

infertile (masculine and feminine plural infertili)

1. infertile
2. barren

Antonyms

• fertile

Related terms

• infertilità

See also

• sterile