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Where does “fertilitas” come from?

fertilitas (Latin) comes from Latin fertilis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

fertilitas (Latin): fruitfulness, fertility, abundance

Definitions

  1. fruitfulness, fertility, abundance

Ancestry of “fertilitas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfertilisfruitful, fertile; productive
2Latin-ilis-ile
3Proto-Italic-elis—
4Proto-Indo-European-elis—
5Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “fertilitas”

  • fertility
  • subfertility
  • antifertility
  • interfertility
  • hyperfertility
  • fertilitate
  • nonfertility
  • superfertility
  • oncofertility
  • fertilità
  • subfertilità
  • infertilité
  • fertilité
  • antifertilidade
  • infertilidade
  • fertilidade
  • fertilitet
  • fertilitetskvotient
  • fertilitetsrate
  • fertilitate
  • fertilité
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →