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arable

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Etymology

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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”).

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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).
    • 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 […]
  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).

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arable (usually uncountable, plural arables)

  1. 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

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis.

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arable (plural arables)

  1. arable

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Middle English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, borrowed from Latin arābilis. Equivalent to Middle French arer +‎ -able.

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arable

  1. (Late Middle English) arable
    Synonym: erable

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  • English: arable

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin arābilis.

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arable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular arable)

  1. arable

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin arābilis.

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  • IPA(key): /aˈɾable/ [aˈɾa.β̞le]
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: a‧ra‧ble

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arable m or f (masculine and feminine plural arables)

  1. arable
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