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Latin
Etymology
Future passive participle of arō.
Participle
arandus (feminine aranda, neuter arandum); first/second-declension participle
- 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 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 .”)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.