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 Finnish: viljelyskelpoinen French: cultivable (fr) German: urbar (de) Greek: καλλιεργήσιμος (el) (kalliergísimos) 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/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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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), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024