Sterilis, & hoc sterile, pen. co. Plin. Barraine: frnitlesse.Sterilisin gignendo. Plin. Veri sterilis. Pers. Agros steriles exurit Sirius.Virg.Amator sterilis.Plaut.A fruitelesse louer lacking money.Amor sterilis. Statius. Barraine loue.Arena sterilis.Virg. Auenæ steriles. Virg.Corpora sterilia sonitu. Lucret. Bodies yeelding no sowne.Domus sterilis. Proper. Februarius sterilis. Cic.Herba sterilis.Ouid.Humo sterili ponere semina. Propert. Iuuenca sterilis.Ouid.Manus steriles.Plaut.shandes that bring nothing: barrayne hands.Paulus sterilis. Horat. Pax sterilis. Tacir. Prospectus sterilis.Plaut.A looking euerie way and seeing nothing.Nullum temporis punctum sterile beneficio. Pli. iun. There is no time but that he doth pleasure to some.Rubigo sterilis. Hora. Meldew or blasting rotting corne, & making it barraine.Seculum virtutum sterile.Tacit.Syluæ steriles. Vir. Vacca sterilis. Vir. A barraine cowe.Venus sterilis. Lucre. Natural coupling without generation.Vir sterilis. Catul. A gelded man that can not ingender.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
stĕrĭlis, e (collat. form, acc. sing. fem sterilam sterilem, Fest. p. 316 Müll.; neutr. plur. sterila, Lucr. 2, 845; abl. sterile, Apic. 7, 1, 258), adj. [Gr. stereo/s, hard; steri/fh, stei=ra, barren; Sanscr. starī, vacca sterilis], unfruitful, barren, sterile, of plants and animals (class. and very freq.; syn infecundus): steriles nascuntur avenae, Verg. E. 5, 37; so, ulvae, Ov. M. 4, 299: herba, id. Am. 3, 7, 31; Curt. 4, 1, 21: platani, Verg. G. 2, 70: agri, id. ib. 1, 84; id. A. 3, 141: tellus, Ov. M. 8, 789: palus, Hor. A. P. 65: harena, Verg. G. 1, 70: humus, Prop. 3, 2 (2, 11), 2; Curt. 7, 5, 34: solum, id. 3, 4, 3: steriles nimium crasso sunt semine, Lucr. 4, 1240; Cat. 67, 26: galli Tanagric' ad partus sunt steriliores, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 6: vacca, Verg. A. 6, 251: multae (mulie res), Lucr. 4, 1251: viri, i. e.
eunuchs
, Cat. 63, 69; Plin. 24, 10, 47, 78; Mart. 9, 9, 8: ova, Plin. 10, 60, 80, 166.—B.Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.). 1. Of things, causing unfruitfulness or sterility: rubigo, Hor. C. 3, 23, 6: frigus, Luc. 4, 108: hiems, Mart. 8, 68, 10: serere pampinariis sterile est,