infertile

English

Etymology

From Middle French infertile, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  infertilis

Adjective

infertile (comparative more infertile, superlative most infertile)

1. Not fertile.

Antonyms

• fertile

Related terms

• infertility

Translations

not fertile

• Arabic: عَقِيم m (ʕaqīm)
• Azerbaijani: barsız, sonsuz (az)
• Bulgarian: безплоден (bg) (bezploden), неплодороден (bg) (neplodoroden)
• 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) m or f
• Galician: maniño m, maniña (gl) f
• German: unfruchtbar (de)
• Greek: άγονος (el) m (ágonos), άγονη (el) f (ágoni), άγονο (el) n (ágono)

  Ancient Greek: ἄγονος (ágonos)

• Indonesian: mandul (id)
• Interlingua: infertile, sterile
• Italian: infertile (it), sterile (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 不妊 (ふにん, funin), 不毛 (ja) (ふもう, fumō)
• Kabuverdianu: ronkodju
• Korean: 메마른 (ko) (memareun)
• Latin: infertilis m or f, infertile n, sterilis m or f, sterile n
• Malay: mandul, tandus
• 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)
• Norman: întchulte m or f
• Portuguese: infértil (pt)
• Romanian: infertil (ro)
• Russian: беспло́дный (ru) (besplódnyj), неплодоро́дный (ru) (neplodoródnyj)
• Slovene: neploden
• Spanish: estéril (es)

Anagrams

• interfile

---

French

Adjective

infertile (plural infertiles)

1. infertile

Antonyms

• 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

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

Adjective

1. infertile
2. barren

Antonyms

• fertile

Related terms

• infertilità

See also

• sterile