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Estonian
Noun
arvus
- inessive singular of arv
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *arawos, from *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”) + *-wós (adjective suffix).[1] Synchronically ar- (present stem of arō) + -vus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
arvus (feminine arva, neuter arvum); first/second-declension adjective
- arable
- ploughed, cultivated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “arvum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
Further reading
- “arvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arvus 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)
- arvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.