arvus, a, um, adj. [for aruus from aro].
I That has been ploughed , but not yet sown , ploughed , arable : ager, arvus et arationes ab arando, Varr. L. L. 5, § 39 Müll.: arvum, quod aratum nec dum satum est, id. R. R. 1, 29; Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.: aut arvus est ager aut consitus aut pascuus aut florens, Isid. Orig. 15, 13: Non arvus hic, sed pascuus est ager, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47: agri arvi et arbusti et pascui lati atque uberes, Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3.—Hence,
II Subst.
A arva , ae, f. (sc. terra), an arable field , cornfield; only twice, ante - class., Naev. ap. Non. p. 192, 30; Pac. ib.—
B arvum , i, n. (sc. solum), an arable field , cultivated land , a field , ploughed land , glebe (cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 8; class.): nec scibat ferro molirier arva, Lucr. 5, 934; 1, 314: sol lumine conserit arva, id. 2, 211; cf. id. 2, 1162; Ov. M. 1, 598; 11, 33; Verg. G. 2, 263 et saep.: ex arvo aeque magno, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2: prata et arva et pecudum greges diliguntur isto modo, quod fructus ex eis capiuntur, Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 122: arva non afferent cibum, Vulg. Hab. 3, 17: Numidae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student, Sall. J. 90, 1: ne perconteris, fundus meus, optime Quincti, Arvo pascat erum, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 2 (i. e. frugibus: arvum autem ab arando dictum est, Crucq.): arva per annos mutant, et superest ager, Tac. G. 26; Suet. Ner. 31; id. Dom. 7.—
2 Meton.
a A region , country : Aspicis en praesens, quali jaceamus in arvo, Ov. P. 4, 7, 3.—
b Poet., in gen., fields , plains , regions : arva putria, Liv. And. ap. Fest. p. 181 Müll.: genus humanum multo fuit in arvis durius, Lucr. 5, 925; 2, 1154: nec pisces (queunt) vivere in arvis, id. 3, 785: Circaea arva, Ov. M. 14, 348: Peneïa, id. ib. 12, 209; so id. ib. 15, 52; 15, 276; 11, 62; 11, 196; Verg. A. 5, 703 et saep.: pomosa, Prop. 5, 7, 81: quā tumidus rigat arva Nilus, Hor. C. 3, 3, 48; id. Epod. 16, 54; so, arva deserti, Vulg. Jer. 23, 10: arva pacis, ib. ib. 25, 37.—Hence also,
α For pascuum, pasture-ground : Arvaque mugitu sancite bovaria longo: Nobile erit Romae pascua vestra forum, i. e. the Forum Boarium at Rome , Prop. 5, 9, 19.—
β Arva Neptunia, for the sea , Verg. A. 8, 695 (cf. id. ib. 6, 724: campi liquentes). —
γ Land , a shore , coast : jamque arva tenebant (angues), Verg. A. 2, 209.