Fertile
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late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre ‘to bear’.
wiktionary
Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis(“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō(“I bear, carry”).
etymonline
fertile (adj.)
mid-15c., fertil, "bearing or producing abundantly," from Old French fertil (15c.) and directly from Latin fertilis "bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive," from ferre "to bear" (from PIE root *bher- (1) "to carry," also "to bear children"). Fertile Crescent (1914) was coined by U.S. archaeologist James H. Breasted (1865-1935) of University of Chicago in "Outlines of European History," Part I.
