arable

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɹəbl̩/

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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).

• inarable

• Arbela, Barela, La Brea, ablare

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

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁabl/

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arable (plural arables)

1. arable

• “arable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• areable, arrable

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

• IPA^(key): /arˈaːbəl/

arable

1. (Late Middle English) arable

   Synonym: erable

• English: arable

• “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

• Middle French: arable
  • French: arable
  • → Middle English: arable, areable, arrable
    • English: arable

From Latin arābilis.

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

arable m or f (masculine and feminine plural arables)

1. arable

• “arable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014