Cultivability

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The characteristic of being suitable or capable for agricultural development or farming purposes
2. The quality that indicates land's potential to support the growth of crops or vegetation effectively
3. The degree to which soil or land can be improved or utilized for productive agricultural activities

Etymology: Its ancestor is the Latin verb "colere", which meant to till the ground, but also to inhabit, tend, and worship. The same root gave English "colony", "culture", and "cult", so a word about farmland shares ancestry with religious devotion. "Cultivare", a derived form meaning to tend or farm, produced English "cultivate". The word itself is built from "cultivable", meaning capable of being tilled, plus the suffix "-ity", which turns adjectives into nouns naming a quality, as in "possibility" or "stability". Because it is a straightforward derivation rather than a borrowed term, its meaning stays close to its parts: the quality of being able to be farmed.