different between arable vs earable

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ??bl?/

Adjective

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).

   • 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).

Translations

Anagrams

• Arbela, Barela, ablare

French

Etymology

From Old French arable, from Latin ar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?abl/

Adjective

arable (plural arables)

1. arable

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• areable, erable

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French arable, borrowed itself from Latin ar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?a?b?l/, /??r?a?b?l/

Adjective

arable

1. (Late Middle English) arable

Descendants

• English: arable, earable

References

• “ar?ble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin ar?bilis.

Adjective

arable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular arable)

1. arable

Descendants

• ? Middle English: arable, areable, erable
  • English: arable, earable

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??able/, [a??a.??le]

Adjective

arable (plural arables)

1. arable

Related terms

• arar

Further reading

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

English

Adjective

earable (comparative more earable, superlative most earable)

1. (archaic) arable; tillable

Anagrams

• Larabee