fertileadj.

Brit.

/ˈfəːtʌɪl/,

/ˈfəːtl/, U.S.

/ˈfərd(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1500s fertyl(e, -yll, 1600s–1700s fertil(l, (1500s fartyll, 1500s–1600s firtile, firtill, 1600s furtill, fertle), Middle English– fertile.

Etymology: < Old French fertil (French fertile = Provençal fertil), < Latin fertilis, < ferre to bear.

1. Bearing or producing in abundance; fruitful, prolific. Const. of, in, rarely †to.

a. literal of the soil, a district or region, rarely of animals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adjective]

goodOE

bearinglOE

freshc1325

fat1393

plentive?a1400

fertilec1460

richa1522

fructual1528

batwell1534

battle?1542

battling1548

increaseful1594

uberousa1627

exuberanta1660

generous1661

productive1672

innerly1868

oasal1888

oasitic1896

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iii Dwellyn thai in on the most fertile reaume of the worlde.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. viii This yere shalle be the..moost fertyle of alle maner of corne.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I4 The firtilest grounde must bee manured.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. xi. 87 The ground was..exceeding furtill.

1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xxxix. 109 A Soil..not..fertile of any Thing but Weeds.

1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds i. 3 The plains..are fertile in native plants.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xvi. 313 These September suns shone..on fertile plains.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective]

bearinglOE

fruitfula1300

plenteousc1325

fructuousa1382

birthful?c1475

fertile1481

broodya1522

yielding1556

foisonous1570

procreant1588

generative1597

yieldy1598

childing1600

seedful1605

thankful1610

foisonable1613

prolifical1615

fecundous1630

feracious1637

prolific1653

fetiferous1654

floriferous1656

productive1672

fœtant1678

spawning1682

uberousa1706

populous?1789

productible1830

grateful1832

resultful1833

genetic1838

tumid1840

polyphorous1858

generant1875

proliferent1920

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > plentiful or fertile

fertile1481

fruitful1535

milch1604

succulent1626

plump1635

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] > prolific

pregnant?a1475

fertile-headed1632

fertile1730

polyphiloprogenitive1919

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. iv. 68 It [Probane, Ceylon] is moche plenteuous of gold and syluer and moche fertyle of other thynges.

?1606 M. Drayton Ode ii, in Poemes sig. B3^v That spray to fame so fertle The louer-crowning Mirtle.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 23 Augustus..being of a fertile and jovial Disposition.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 26/2 The offspring of his fertile imagination.

1819 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 121 He was..fertile in resources.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 216 One family, singularly fertile of great men.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) iii. xiv. 335 England was..a land fertile in warriors.

c. fertile crescent n. see quot. 1914¹.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > specific

moose yard1800

tsetse district1851

tsetse country1853

fly-country1864

Notogaea1868

floral zone1870

Ornithogaea1874

Nearctic1877

fly-belt1894

fertile crescent1914

alterne1916

Wallacea1928

pollen zone1929

1914 J. H. Breasted in J. H. Breasted & J. H. Robinson Outl. European Hist. i. iii. 56 This fertile crescent is approximately a semicircle..with one wing stretching along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the other reaching out to the Persian Gulf.

1914 J. H. Breasted in J. H. Breasted & J. H. Robinson Outl. European Hist. i. iii. 57 This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.

1945 W. H. Auden Coll. Poetry 343 The earth debates: the Fertile Crescent argues.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments ii. 83 The tip of the ‘fertile crescent’, whence a main trade route leads into the interior.

1958 Spectator 7 Feb. 159/2 The rulers of Syria..had no wish so soon afterwards to be engulfed within the Fertile Crescent scheme then being mooted.

1970 Guardian 10 Sept. 15/2 There's an old fable told in the lands of the Fertile Crescent.

d. Nuclear Physics. Capable of being transformed into a fissile isotope by the capture of a neutron.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > [adjective] > capable of transformation

fertile1949

1949 Nucleonics Dec. 41/2 The concentration of the new fissionable material builds up within the fertile material.

1963 Peterson & Wymer Chem. Nucl. Technol. i. 3 This type of reactor contains fertile material, either U²³⁸ or thorium, which is converted to fuel by neutrons in excess of those needed to maintain the fission process.

2. Causing or tending to promote fertility.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective]

cooling?c1425

comfortablec1440

refreshing1534

rousing1576

vegetant1576

reviving1579

refriscative1582

refrigerating1583

cordial1584

airy1591

freshing1591

animating1595

fertile1597

recreating1600

refective1611

refreshfula1614

comforting1623

refrigerant1626

erecting1654

cordialine1674

refocillating1675

corroboratinga1680

refectory1693

invigorating1694

restoring1697

freshful1734

enlivening1746–7

livelya1754

tonic1756

stimulatory1758

vivifying1768

energizing1786

stimulative1791

refreshening1807

vitalizing1813

stimulating1827

recuperative1843

invigorative1860

innerving1868

breezy1870

tonicizing1890

reparatory1893

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adjective] > making

vegetative?a1450

fertile1597

impregnating1705

fecund1827

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. ii. 3 The coole streame, that tooke his endles name, From out the fertile hoofe of winged steed.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iii. 322 The torrid Zone..most pleasant and fertile.

1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 66 Lay Pigeons dung..to the roots (or the like stuffe, that is very hot, and fertill).

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 182 They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime.

figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 117 With..good store of fertile sherris.

†3. Copiously produced, abundant. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abundantly produced or producing

fecundc1400

facund?1504

bountifula1538

redundant?1611

fertilea1616

fruitful1629

prolific1665

productive1672

spawning1682

tousy1895

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 244 Ol. How does he loue me? Vio. With adorations, fertill teares.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 801 Shall..the fertil burden ease Of thy full branches.

Compounds

fertile-brained adj. = fertile-headed adj. (b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious

craftlyOE

craftyOE

quainta1250

enginefulc1400

maliciousc1425

industriousc1487

curious1489

ingenious1576

daedal1590

Daedalian1607

fertile-headed1632

knacky1710

supple1710

tricksome1821

tactical1883

tricky1887

fertile-brained1894

1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 275 It seemed to be all plain enough sailing to this fertile-brained..sybarite.

fertile-fresh adj. having luxuriant foliage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having abundant or luxuriant foliage

well-leaved1567

thick-leaved1582

fertile-fresha1616

blind1717

thick-foliaged1827

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 67 Greene let it be, More [printed Mote] fertile-fresh then all the Field to see.

fertile-headed adj. (a) many headed; (b) rich in expedients.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious

craftlyOE

craftyOE

quainta1250

enginefulc1400

maliciousc1425

industriousc1487

curious1489

ingenious1576

daedal1590

Daedalian1607

fertile-headed1632

knacky1710

supple1710

tricksome1821

tactical1883

tricky1887

fertile-brained1894

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > many-sided or having parts

many-headed1537

many-sided1570

fertile-headed1632

versatile1656

multilateral1784

multilineala1800

polycephalic1850

multipolar1855

faceted1862

multicentral1864

arborescent1867

multisegmented1879

multisegmentate1880

multilinear1886

polycentric1887

many-faceted1890

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] > prolific

pregnant?a1475

fertile-headed1632

fertile1730

polyphiloprogenitive1919

1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry i. sig. B2^v Cerberus..lowd, and fertyle headed.

1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. xl. 289 The fertile-headed Woman..whipt a ten-peck Bag over her Gallant's Head.

Derivatives

† ˈfertile v. Obsolete rare = fertilize v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > render productive [verb (transitive)]

fertile1628

fecundatea1631

impregnate1667

increase1697

fecundize1828

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxi. sig.Y5^v Hee that hopes too much, shall coozen himselfe at last; especially, if his industry goes not along to fertile it.

ˈfertilely adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adverb]

fructuouslya1382

fertilelya1586

pregnantly1593

fruitfully1608

fructiferously1635

exuberantly1650

teemingly1651

prolifically1735

prolificly1851

resultfully1860

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adverb]

fertilelya1586

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xv. sig. Y6^v Who..could not but fertilly requite his fathers fatherly education.

a1695 A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1889) I. 395 The meedes adjoyning are fertilly soyled.

ˈfertileness n. rare = fertility n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > productivity of

pregnancyc1487

pregnance?1533

fertilenessa1586

fertility1615

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1 The fertilnes of the Italian wit.

1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman i. vi. 37 According to the fertilenesse of the soyle in which they grow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fertile
释义	fertileadj. Brit. /ˈfəːtʌɪl/, /ˈfəːtl/, U.S. /ˈfərd(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1500s fertyl(e, -yll, 1600s–1700s fertil(l, (1500s fartyll, 1500s–1600s firtile, firtill, 1600s furtill, fertle), Middle English– fertile. Etymology: < Old French fertil (French fertile = Provençal fertil), < Latin fertilis, < ferre to bear. 1. Bearing or producing in abundance; fruitful, prolific. Const. of, in, rarely †to. a. literal of the soil, a district or region, rarely of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adjective] goodOE bearinglOE freshc1325 fat1393 plentive?a1400 fertilec1460 richa1522 fructual1528 batwell1534 battle?1542 battling1548 increaseful1594 uberousa1627 exuberanta1660 generous1661 productive1672 innerly1868 oasal1888 oasitic1896 c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iii Dwellyn thai in on the most fertile reaume of the worlde. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. viii This yere shalle be the..moost fertyle of alle maner of corne. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I4 The firtilest grounde must bee manured. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. xi. 87 The ground was..exceeding furtill. 1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xxxix. 109 A Soil..not..fertile of any Thing but Weeds. 1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds i. 3 The plains..are fertile in native plants. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xvi. 313 These September suns shone..on fertile plains. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] bearinglOE fruitfula1300 plenteousc1325 fructuousa1382 birthful?c1475 fertile1481 broodya1522 yielding1556 foisonous1570 procreant1588 generative1597 yieldy1598 childing1600 seedful1605 thankful1610 foisonable1613 prolifical1615 fecundous1630 feracious1637 prolific1653 fetiferous1654 floriferous1656 productive1672 fœtant1678 spawning1682 uberousa1706 populous?1789 productible1830 grateful1832 resultful1833 genetic1838 tumid1840 polyphorous1858 generant1875 proliferent1920 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > plentiful or fertile fertile1481 fruitful1535 milch1604 succulent1626 plump1635 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] > prolific pregnant?a1475 fertile-headed1632 fertile1730 polyphiloprogenitive1919 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. iv. 68 It [Probane, Ceylon] is moche plenteuous of gold and syluer and moche fertyle of other thynges. ?1606 M. Drayton Ode ii, in Poemes sig. B3^v That spray to fame so fertle The louer-crowning Mirtle. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 23 Augustus..being of a fertile and jovial Disposition. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 26/2 The offspring of his fertile imagination. 1819 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 121 He was..fertile in resources. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 216 One family, singularly fertile of great men. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) iii. xiv. 335 England was..a land fertile in warriors. c. fertile crescent n. see quot. 1914¹. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > specific moose yard1800 tsetse district1851 tsetse country1853 fly-country1864 Notogaea1868 floral zone1870 Ornithogaea1874 Nearctic1877 fly-belt1894 fertile crescent1914 alterne1916 Wallacea1928 pollen zone1929 1914 J. H. Breasted in J. H. Breasted & J. H. Robinson Outl. European Hist. i. iii. 56 This fertile crescent is approximately a semicircle..with one wing stretching along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the other reaching out to the Persian Gulf. 1914 J. H. Breasted in J. H. Breasted & J. H. Robinson Outl. European Hist. i. iii. 57 This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent. 1945 W. H. Auden Coll. Poetry 343 The earth debates: the Fertile Crescent argues. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments ii. 83 The tip of the ‘fertile crescent’, whence a main trade route leads into the interior. 1958 Spectator 7 Feb. 159/2 The rulers of Syria..had no wish so soon afterwards to be engulfed within the Fertile Crescent scheme then being mooted. 1970 Guardian 10 Sept. 15/2 There's an old fable told in the lands of the Fertile Crescent. d. Nuclear Physics. Capable of being transformed into a fissile isotope by the capture of a neutron. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > [adjective] > capable of transformation fertile1949 1949 Nucleonics Dec. 41/2 The concentration of the new fissionable material builds up within the fertile material. 1963 Peterson & Wymer Chem. Nucl. Technol. i. 3 This type of reactor contains fertile material, either U²³⁸ or thorium, which is converted to fuel by neutrons in excess of those needed to maintain the fission process. 2. Causing or tending to promote fertility. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] cooling?c1425 comfortablec1440 refreshing1534 rousing1576 vegetant1576 reviving1579 refriscative1582 refrigerating1583 cordial1584 airy1591 freshing1591 animating1595 fertile1597 recreating1600 refective1611 refreshfula1614 comforting1623 refrigerant1626 erecting1654 cordialine1674 refocillating1675 corroboratinga1680 refectory1693 invigorating1694 restoring1697 freshful1734 enlivening1746–7 livelya1754 tonic1756 stimulatory1758 vivifying1768 energizing1786 stimulative1791 refreshening1807 vitalizing1813 stimulating1827 recuperative1843 invigorative1860 innerving1868 breezy1870 tonicizing1890 reparatory1893 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adjective] > making vegetative?a1450 fertile1597 impregnating1705 fecund1827 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. ii. 3 The coole streame, that tooke his endles name, From out the fertile hoofe of winged steed. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iii. 322 The torrid Zone..most pleasant and fertile. 1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 66 Lay Pigeons dung..to the roots (or the like stuffe, that is very hot, and fertill). 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 182 They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime. figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 117 With..good store of fertile sherris. †3. Copiously produced, abundant. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abundantly produced or producing fecundc1400 facund?1504 bountifula1538 redundant?1611 fertilea1616 fruitful1629 prolific1665 productive1672 spawning1682 tousy1895 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 244 Ol. How does he loue me? Vio. With adorations, fertill teares. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 801 Shall..the fertil burden ease Of thy full branches. View more context for this quotation Compounds fertile-brained adj. = fertile-headed adj. (b). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious craftlyOE craftyOE quainta1250 enginefulc1400 maliciousc1425 industriousc1487 curious1489 ingenious1576 daedal1590 Daedalian1607 fertile-headed1632 knacky1710 supple1710 tricksome1821 tactical1883 tricky1887 fertile-brained1894 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 275 It seemed to be all plain enough sailing to this fertile-brained..sybarite. fertile-fresh adj. having luxuriant foliage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having abundant or luxuriant foliage well-leaved1567 thick-leaved1582 fertile-fresha1616 blind1717 thick-foliaged1827 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 67 Greene let it be, More [printed Mote] fertile-fresh then all the Field to see. View more context for this quotation fertile-headed adj. (a) many headed; (b) rich in expedients. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > ingenious craftlyOE craftyOE quainta1250 enginefulc1400 maliciousc1425 industriousc1487 curious1489 ingenious1576 daedal1590 Daedalian1607 fertile-headed1632 knacky1710 supple1710 tricksome1821 tactical1883 tricky1887 fertile-brained1894 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > many-sided or having parts many-headed1537 many-sided1570 fertile-headed1632 versatile1656 multilateral1784 multilineala1800 polycephalic1850 multipolar1855 faceted1862 multicentral1864 arborescent1867 multisegmented1879 multisegmentate1880 multilinear1886 polycentric1887 many-faceted1890 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] > prolific pregnant?a1475 fertile-headed1632 fertile1730 polyphiloprogenitive1919 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry i. sig. B2^v Cerberus..lowd, and fertyle headed. 1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. xl. 289 The fertile-headed Woman..whipt a ten-peck Bag over her Gallant's Head. Derivatives † ˈfertile v. Obsolete rare = fertilize v. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > render productive [verb (transitive)] fertile1628 fecundatea1631 impregnate1667 increase1697 fecundize1828 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxi. sig.Y5^v Hee that hopes too much, shall coozen himselfe at last; especially, if his industry goes not along to fertile it. ˈfertilely adv. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adverb] fructuouslya1382 fertilelya1586 pregnantly1593 fruitfully1608 fructiferously1635 exuberantly1650 teemingly1651 prolifically1735 prolificly1851 resultfully1860 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adverb] fertilelya1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xv. sig. Y6^v Who..could not but fertilly requite his fathers fatherly education. a1695 A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1889) I. 395 The meedes adjoyning are fertilly soyled. ˈfertileness n. rare = fertility n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > productivity of pregnancyc1487 pregnance?1533 fertilenessa1586 fertility1615 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1 The fertilnes of the Italian wit. 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman i. vi. 37 According to the fertilenesse of the soyle in which they grow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1460
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