Agricultural
/ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl/noun
Relating to the cultivation of land or farming.
Did you know?Agricultural comes from Latin agrĭcultura, the Roman word for farming, built from ager (“field”) + cultura (“cultivation”), and that same ager root also lives inside the ancient idea of the *agrarian* world.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₂éǵros
“field, open land”
Latin
Latin
ager
“field, land, territory”
Latin
Latin
agricultura
“cultivation of fields; farming”
Late Latin
Latin
agriculturālis
“pertaining to farming”
Middle English
English
agricultural
“relating to farming or the tilling of land”
Modern English
English
agricultural
“relating to the cultivation of land or farming”
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