The corpus record — Latin

fertilitas

fertilitas · f

fruitfulness

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Where it lives

In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 41 · 1.03/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4 · 0.34/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fertĭlĭtas — Lewis & Short

fertĭlĭtas, ātis, f.fertilis,

I fruitfulness, fertility, abundance.

I Lit., of plants and animals (class.): quae sit vel sterilitas agrorum vel fertilitas futura, * Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131: loci, Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 1: terrae, Quint. 2, 19, 2; cf.: terrae (Siculae), Ov. M. 5, 481: frugum et vitium olearumque, Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 41: metallorum, id. 3, 20, 24, § 138. —Of animal fruitfulness: (Rhea) indoluit fertilitate suā, Ov. F. 4, 202: barbara, i. e. of the Oriental women, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 36: animalium ad generandum, Plin. 8, 42, 66, § 164.—

II Trop.: artis ejus (Protogenis) summa intentio, et ideo minor fertilitas, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 101; Sedul. 4, 10.

In the wild

fertilitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p9
fertilitatis Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.31.1
fertilitate Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 p25
fertilitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.4.p4
Fertilitas Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.481
fertilitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.2.p1

6 of 69 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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