fertilis

Latin

Etymology

From ferō (“to carry, bear”) +‎ -ilis (suffix forming adjectives), with -t- probably by analogy to other deverbal adjectives in -ilis, many of which were built on past participle stems.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfer.ti.lis/, [ˈfɛrt̪ɪlʲɪs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfer.ti.lis/, [ˈfɛrt̪ilis]

Adjective

fertilis (neuter fertile, superlative fertilissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective

fruitful, fertile
Synonyms: fecundus, frūgifer, ūber, opīmus, dīves, dītis
productive

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	fertilis	fertile	fertilēs	fertilia
genitive	fertilis		fertilium
dative	fertilī		fertilibus
accusative	fertilem	fertile	fertilēs fertilīs	fertilia
ablative	fertilī		fertilibus
vocative	fertilis	fertile	fertilēs	fertilia

Derived terms

Related terms

ferō

Descendants

→ Asturian: fértil
→ Catalan: fèrtil
→ English: fertile
→ French: fertile
→ Friulian: fertil
→ Galician: fértil
→ Italian: fertile
→ Piedmontese: fèrtil
→ Portuguese: fértil
→ Romanian: fertil
→ Spanish: fértil

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ferō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 214

“fertilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fertilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fertilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to leave fertile ground untilled: agros fertiles deserere

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ferō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 214

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