capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage: arable land; arable soil.
noun
2.
land that can be or is cultivated.
Origin: 1375–1425; < Latinarābilis, equivalent to arā(re) to plow + -bilis-ble; replacing late Middle Englisherable, equivalent to er(en) to plow (Old Englisherian) + -able-able
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early 15c., "suitable for plowing" (as opposed to pasture- or wood-land), from O.Fr. arable, from L. arabilis, from arare "to plow," from PIE *are- "to plow" (cf. Gk. aroun, O.C.S. orja, Lith. ariu "to plow;" Goth. arjan, O.E. erian, M.Ir. airim, Welsh arddu "to plow;" O.N. arþr "a plow"). Replaced