fertile

English edit

Etymology edit

Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtaɪl/, /ˈfɜːtəl/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝːtəl/, /ˈfɝːtaɪl/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝːtaɪl/
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Adjective edit

fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)

Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
(figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:productive
(biology)
1. Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
  Synonym: (archaic) childing
  
  Antonyms: barren, infertile, sterile
  
  Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
2. Capable of developing past the egg stage.
(physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.

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Translations edit

of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops

Arabic: خَصِب (ḵaṣib)
Asturian: fértil
Azerbaijani: münbit, məhsuldar, bərəkətli
Basque: emankor (eu)
Breton: strujus (br)
Bulgarian: плодороден (bg) (plodoroden)
Catalan: fèrtil (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肥沃 (zh) (féiwò)
Czech: úrodný (cs) m
Danish: frugtbar (da)
Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl)
Finnish: viljava (fi), hedelmällinen (fi)
French: fertile (fr)
Galician: fértil (gl)
Georgian: ნოყიერი (noq̇ieri)
German: fruchtbar (de), geil (de)
Greek:
Ancient: γόνιμος (gónimos)
Hindi: उपजाऊ (hi) (upjāū)
Hungarian: termékeny (hu)
Ido: fertila (io)
Indonesian: subur (id)
Irish: torthúil, méiniúil, arúil, méith
Japanese: 肥沃な (ja) (hiyoku na)
Korean: 걸다 (ko) (geolda), 비옥(肥沃)하다 (biokhada)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەپیت (bepît)
Latin: ferax, fēcundus, fertilis
Latvian: auglīgs, ražīgs
Lithuanian: derlingas
Malay: subur (ms)
Maori: haumako, mōmona
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fruktbar (no)

Nynorsk: fruktbar
Old English: wæstmbǣre
Persian: حاصلخیز (fa)
Plautdietsch: fruchtboa
Polish: żyzny (pl)
Portuguese: fértil (pt)
Russian: плодоро́дный (ru) (plodoródnyj)
Slovene: ploden (sl), plodovit
Spanish: fértil (es), feraz (es)
Swedish: bördig (sv)
Thai: อุดมสมบูรณ์, อุดม (th) (ù-dom), สมบูรณ์ (th) (sǒm-buun)
Turkish: verimli (tr), bitek (tr), mahsuldar (tr), feyyaz (tr), gür (tr)
Ukrainian: родю́чий (uk) (rodjúčyj)
Urdu: زرخیز (zarxaiz)
Vietnamese: màu mỡ (vi)
Yiddish: פֿרוכטבאַר (frukhtbar)
Zazaki: mexel, xesad n

of one’s imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific

Basque: emankor (eu)
Bulgarian: богат (bg) (bogat)
Catalan: fèrtil (ca)
Danish: frugtbar (da)
Finnish: tuottelias (fi), vilkas (fi)
French: fertile (fr)
Galician: fértil (gl)
Ido: fertila (io)
Malay: subur (ms)
Polish: bujny (pl)
Portuguese: fértil (pt)
Slovene: ploden (sl)
Spanish: fértil (es)
Turkish: üretken (tr)

capable of reproducing

Arabic: خَصِب (ḵaṣib)
Asturian: fértil
Basque: ugalkor (eu), emankor (eu)
Bulgarian: плодовит (bg) (plodovit)
Catalan: fèrtil (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 能生育的 (néng shēngyù de)
Czech: plodný (cs) m
Danish: frugtbar (da)
Esperanto: fekunda
Finnish: hedelmällinen (fi)
French: fertile (fr)
Galician: fértil (gl)
German: fruchtbar (de)
Greek:
Ancient: γόνιμος (gónimos)
Ido: fertila (io)
Irish: torthúil, méith
Latin: ferax, fēcundus, fertilis
Latvian: auglīgs, vaislīgs
Lithuanian: vaisingas
Malay: subur (ms)
Maori: matahua, pukuhua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fruktbar (no)

Nynorsk: fruktbar
Old English: wæstmbǣre
Polish: płodny (pl)
Portuguese: fértil (pt)
Romanian: fertil (ro)
Slovene: ploden (sl)
Spanish: fértil (es)
Swedish: fertil (sv)
Turkish: doğurgan (tr), üretken (tr)
Zazaki: awregan f

capable of developing past the egg stage

Bulgarian: оплоден (bg) (oploden)
Finnish: hedelmöitynyt (fi)
Ido: fertila (io)
Slovene: oplojen
Zazaki: pungal

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