cultivable

English

Etymology

From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable.

Adjective

cultivable (comparative more cultivable, superlative most cultivable)

1. Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183.

     These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.

Synonyms

• cultivatable
• arable

Derived terms

• noncultivable
• uncultivable

 

Translations

capable of being cultivated

• Arabic: صالح للزراعَة m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可耕地 (zh) (kěgēngdì)

• Esperanto: kultivebla
• French: cultivable (fr)
• German: urbar (de)
• Italian: coltivabile (it)
• Manx: yn-troarey
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dyrkbar

  Nynorsk: dyrkbar

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: обра̀див

  Roman: obràdiv (sh)

• Spanish: cultivable (es)
• Swedish: odlingsbar (sv)

French

Etymology

From cultiver +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyl.ti.vabl/

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Adjective

cultivable (plural cultivables)

1. cultivable

   Synonym: arable

Further reading

• “cultivable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kultiˈbable/ [kul̪.t̪iˈβ̞a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: cul‧ti‧va‧ble

Adjective

cultivable m or f (masculine and feminine plural cultivables)

1. cultivable
2. arable

   Synonym: arable

Further reading

• “cultivable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16