arandus

Future passive participle of arō.

arandus (feminine aranda, neuter arandum); first/second-declension participle

1. which is to be ploughed, tilled, cultivated, farmed; i.e., arable
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.211–213:

     “Fēmina, quae nostrīs errāns in fīnibus urbem
     exiguam pretiō posuit, cui lītus arandum,
     cuique locī lēgēs dedimus [...].”

     “A woman, astray, who planted her little town along our shores for a price, to whom we gave arable coastland, and to whom [we gave] laws of settlement [...].”
     (A resentful King Iarbas mocks Queen Dido; the acreage she bought for Carthage may be small, sandy, and less than ideal for farming. Robert Fagles’ translation, pg. 135, conveys Iarbas’ bitterness: “We tossed her some beach to plow – on my terms [...].”)

First/second-declension adjective.