Etymology
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From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas.
Pronunciation
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fertility (countable and uncountable, plural fertilities)
- (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
- (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- The average number of births per woman within a population.
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Translations
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the condition, or the degree of being fertile
- Afrikaans: vrugbaarheid
- Arabic: خُصُوبَة f (ḵuṣūba)
- Egyptian Arabic: خصوبة f (xoṣoba)
- Azerbaijani: münbitlik
- Catalan: fertilitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (of soil) 肥沃 (zh) (féiwò), (of giving birth) 繁殖力 (zh) (fánzhílì), 生殖力 (zh) (shēngzhílì), 生育力 (shēngyùlì)
- Czech: plodnost (cs) f
- Danish: frugtbarhed
- Dutch: vruchtbaarheid (nl)
- Finnish: hedelmällisyys (fi)
- French: fertilité (fr) f
- Galician: fertilidade (gl) f
- German: Fruchtbarkeit (de) f
- Greek: γονιμότητα (el) f (gonimótita)
- Ancient: γονιμότης f (gonimótēs)
- Hebrew: פּוֹרִיּוּת (he) f (poriút)
- Latin: fertilitās (la) f
- Latvian: auglīgums m, auglība f, vaislīgums m, vaislība f
- Maori: makurutanga, momonatanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fruktbarhet m or f
- Nynorsk: fruktbarheit f, frævleik m, økslingsevne f
- Old English: wæstmbǣrnes f
- Polish: płodność (pl) f
- Portuguese: fertilidade (pt) f
- Romanian: fertilitate (ro)
- Russian: плодоро́дие (ru) n (plodoródije), плодови́тость (ru) f (plodovítostʹ) (ability to produce offspring)
- Serbo-Croatian: plodnost (sh) f
- Spanish: fertilidad (es) f
- Swedish: fruktsamhet (sv) c
- Turkish: doğurganlık (tr), verimlilik (tr)
- Welsh: ffrwythlondeb (cy) m
- Yiddish: פֿרוכטבאַרקייט f (frukhtbarkeyt)
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the birthrate of a population
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