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Latin
Etymology
Presumably the neuter form of *vervāctus (“having been ploughed”), perfect passive participle of vervagō (“to plough fallow land”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vervāctum n (genitive vervāctī); second declension
- fallow ground, a fallow field
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “vervactum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vervactum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.