fertility

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas.

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɚːˈtɪləti/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

NounEdit

fertility (countable and uncountable, plural fertilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.

   Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.

2. (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
3. The average number of births per woman within a population.

SynonymsEdit

• fecundity, fertileness

AntonymsEdit

• infertility

Derived termsEdit

• oncofertility

TranslationsEdit

the condition, or the degree of being fertile

• Arabic: خُصُوبَة‎‎ f (ḵuṣūba)

  Egyptian Arabic: خصوبة‎‎ f (xoṣoba)

• Catalan: fertilitat 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 f
• Danish: frugtbarhed
• Dutch: vruchtbaarheid (nl)
• Finnish: hedelmällisyys (fi)
• French: fertilité (fr) f
• German: Fruchtbarkeit (de) f
• Greek: γονιμότητα (el) f (gonimótita)

• Hebrew: פּוֹרִיּוּת‎‎ (he) f (poriút)
• Latvian: auglīgums m, auglība f, vaislīgums m, vaislība f
• Maori: makurutanga, momonatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fruktbarhet m, f

  Nynorsk: fruktbarheit f

• Old English: wæstmbǣrnes f
• Polish: płodność (pl) f
• Portuguese: fertilidade (pt) f
• Russian: плодоро́дие (ru) n (plodoródije), плодови́тость (ru) f (plodovítostʹ) (ability to produce offspring)
• Serbo-Croatian: plodnost (sh) f
• Spanish: fertilidad (es) f
• Turkish: doğurganlık (tr)

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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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fertilità (it) f
• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} به‌پیتی‎‎ (bepîtî)

• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} sliochdmhorachd f, ^{(please verify)} torraicheas m, ^{(please verify)} torachas m, ^{(please verify)} mathas m

Further readingEdit

• fertility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia