English

intersterility

From inter- + sterility.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Proto-Indo-European *ster- ‘sterile’

Latin sterilis ‘barren, sterile’

Latin sterilitās ‘sterility, barrenness’

Middle English sterylite

Today it means

noun The quality of being intersterile.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / intersterility