fertility

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /fə(ɹ)ˈtɪlɪti/
(US) IPA^(key): /fɝˈtɪləti/
(Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːʳʈiliʈi/, /ˈfɜːʳʈajliʈi/
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.
- 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline‎^[1]:
  Men may also have fertility challenges, especially if their hypogonadism was caused by anabolic steroid use. Anabolic steroids can affect testicular health, including reducing the production of sperm.
(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)
Indonesian: fertilitas (id), kesuburan (id)
Latin: fertilitās (la) f
Latvian: auglīgums m, auglība f, vaislīgums m, vaislība f
Malay: kesuburan (ms)
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)
Indonesian: fertilitas (id), kesuburan (id)
Lithuanian: gimstamumas m
Malay: kesuburan (ms)
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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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