arabilis
Latin
Etymology
From arō, arāre (“plow”, verb) + -bilis (“able to be”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈra.bi.lis/, [äˈräbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈra.bi.lis/, [äˈräːbilis]
Adjective
arābilis (neuter arābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- arable: able to be plowed, able to be farmed; capable of growing crops
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | arābilis | arābile | arābilēs | arābilia | |
| Genitive | arābilis | arābilium | |||
| Dative | arābilī | arābilibus | |||
| Accusative | arābilem | arābile | arābilēs arābilīs | arābilia | |
| Ablative | arābilī | arābilibus | |||
| Vocative | arābilis | arābile | arābilēs | arābilia | |
Descendants
- Catalan: arable
- English: arable
- French: arable
- Galician: arable
- Italian: arabile
- Portuguese: arável
- Romanian: arabil
- Spanish: arable
References
- “arabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arabilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette