fertilitas Latin · revision 33648

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *bʰer-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fɛrˈtɪ.lɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ferˈtiː.li.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fertilitās''' ''f'' (genitive fertilitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fertilis|-tās|t1=fertile]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|fertilis]] belongs to [[m|la|ferō|t=to carry, bear]],^(Köbler 2010) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*fere/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰer-e/o-|t=to carry]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|fertu|t=to carry, bring]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''De divinatione'' speaks of foretelling whether the fields will be barren or fertile, ''vel sterilitas agrorum vel fertilitas''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is fruitfulness or fertility, of land,^(OLD 2012) as in Caesar's fertility of a region and Ovid's fertility of the Sicilian earth;^(Lewis & Short 1879) of crops and plants, as in Pliny the Elder's great fertility of grain, vines and olives;^(OLD 2012) and of human beings and animals: a tragedy fragment speaks of Spartan girls who care more for the wrestling ground than for barbarian fertility.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that apart from that fragment and Ovid it is missing in the poets.^(TLL) Pliny the Elder also uses it of productivity or output, as of Italy's wealth in metals, and of an artist whose great care made his output smaller.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of fertile fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of the fertility of a region.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of crops and of the output of mines and artists.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|fruitfulness|alt=Fruitfulness]], [[m|en|fertility]], of land, plants, people or animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|abundance|alt=Abundance]];^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) productivity, output.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fertilis]]

+ * [[ferō]]

+ * [[sterilitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}