sterilitas

Latin

Etymology

sterilis +‎ -tās

Noun

sterilitās f (genitive sterilitātis); third declension

1. sterility, barrenness
2. scarcity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sterilitās	sterilitātēs
Genitive	sterilitātis	sterilitātum
Dative	sterilitātī	sterilitātibus
Accusative	sterilitātem	sterilitātēs
Ablative	sterilitāte	sterilitātibus
Vocative	sterilitās	sterilitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: esterilitat
• English: sterility
• French: stérilité
• Italian: sterilità
• Portuguese: esterilidade
• Romanian: sterilitate
• Spanish: esterilidad

References

• “sterilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sterilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sterilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.