fertility

English

Etymology

From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas, equivalent to fertile +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /fɝˈtɪləti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

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.

Synonyms

fecundity, fertileness

Antonyms

infertility

Derived terms

Translations

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)

the birthrate of a population

Danish: fertilitet (da), fertilitetskvotient (da) c, fødselshyppighed c
Finnish: hedelmällisyys (fi)
Maori: matahuatanga
Portuguese: fertilidade (pt) f
Russian: рожда́емость (ru) f (roždájemostʹ)
Spanish: fertilidad (es) f
Turkish: doğum oranı (tr)

average number of births per woman — see fertility rate

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Italian: ^{(please verify)} fertilità (it) f
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} بەپیتی (bepîtî)
Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} sliochdmhorachd f, ^{(please verify)} torraicheas m, ^{(please verify)} torachas m, ^{(please verify)} mathas m