arable
English
Etymology
From Middle English arable, from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis, formed from arō (“plow”) + -bilis (“able to be”). Cognate with earable (“arable”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæɹəbl̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
arable (comparative more arable, superlative most arable)
- (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 50:
- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]
- (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
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Noun
arable (uncountable)
- Land that can be cropped (i.e., land that is arable); land that is being cropped (i.e., land that is in the cropping phase of a crop rotation, currently being cropped rather than used as pasture or fallow).
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
arable (plural arables)
Further reading
- “arable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, borrowed from Latin arābilis. Equivalent to Middle French arer + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
arable
- (Late Middle English) arable
- Synonym: erable
Descendants
- English: arable
References
- “arāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.
Old French
Etymology
Adjective
arable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular arable)
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
arable m or f (masculine and feminine plural arables)
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Further reading
- “arable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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