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aratio

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Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous

Euripides, Melanippe Captiva, Fragment 6.11

Latin > English

aratio arationis N F :: plowing; tilled ground; an estate of arable land (esp. one farmed on shares)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ărātĭo: ōnis, f. aro.
I A ploughing, and in gen. the cultivation of the ground, agriculture: iteratio arationis peracta esse debet, si, etc., Col. 11, 2, 64: aratione per transversum iterata, Plin. 18, 20, 49, § 180: ut quaestuosa mercatura, fructuosa aratio dicitur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 86.—
II Meton. (abstr. for concr.), ploughed land, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47 (cf. aratiuncula): (calsa) nascitur in arationibus, Plin. 27, 8, 36, § 58.— Esp., in Roman financial lang., the public farms or plots of land farmed out for a tenth of the produce (cf. arator, I. B.), Cic. Phil. 2, 39 fin.; id. Verr. 2, 3, 98.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

ărātĭō,¹¹ ōnis, f. (aro), labour : Plin. 18, 180 ; Cic. Tusc. 5, 86 || terre cultivée : Sen. Ep. 89, 20 || [en part. terres que le peuple romain donnait à cultiver dans les provinces] : Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43 ; 3, 69, etc.

Latin > German (Georges)

arātio, ōnis, f. (aro), I) das Pflügen, Col. 11, 2, 64. Plin. 18, 180: u. im allg., das Bebauen des Feldes durch den Pflug, der Ackerbau, aratio quaestuosa est, Cic. Tusc. 5, 86. – II) meton., das Feld, das gepflügt wird od. ist, das Ackerfeld, Artland, Plaut., Col. u.a. – bes. arationes = die dem röm. Staate gehörigen Ländereien in den Provinzen, die für den Zehnten verpachtet wurden, Domänen, arationes grandiferae et fructuosae, Cic.: hae quondam arationes Campana et Leontina, Cic.: arationes omnes totā Siciliā desertas atque a dominis omnes relictas esse cognoscitis, Cic.

Latin > Chinese

aratio, onis. f. :: 耕之田