arable

From Middle English arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis, formed from arō (“plow”) + -bilis (“able to be”). Cognate with earable (“arable”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɹəbl̩/

arable (comparative more arable, superlative most arable)

1. (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]

2. (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).

• Arbela, Barela, ablare

From Old French arable, from Latin arābilis.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁabl/

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arable (plural arables)

1. arable

• “arable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• areable, erable

Borrowed from Old French arable, borrowed itself from Latin arābilis.

• IPA^(key): /arˈaːbəl/, /ɛːrˈaːbəl/

arable

1. (Late Middle English) arable

• English: arable, earable

• “arāble (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.

From Latin arābilis.

arable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular arable)

1. arable

arable (plural arables)

1. arable