fertilitate

English

Etymology

From fertility, with change of suffix after debilitate.

Verb

fertilitate (third-person singular simple present fertilitates, present participle fertilitating, simple past and past participle fertilitated)

  1. (rare, obsolete) To make fertile; to fertilize.
    • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:
      a sweet rivolet playes wantonly in two streames through the Towne, fertilitating the Groves and Gardens

Latin

Noun

fertilitāte

  1. ablative singular of fertilitās

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas. Equivalent to fertil + -itate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fer.ti.liˈta.te]

Noun

fertilitate f (uncountable)

  1. fertility

Declension

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