different between arable vs ploughable
arable
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)
- (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 […]
- (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)
- 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
- (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)
- 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)
- arable
Related terms
- arar
Further reading
- “arable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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ploughable
English
Etymology
plough +? -able
Adjective
ploughable (comparative more ploughable, superlative most ploughable)
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of plowable
ploughable From the web:
- what does ploughed mean
- what does the word ploughed mean
- what does getting ploughed mean
- what does ploughing mean sexually
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