Etymology

agrarian

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Today it means: Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land. Full definition →

Middle French agrarien ← Latin agrārius ← Proto-Italic *agros
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵros
  3. Proto-Italic*agros
  4. Latinager
  5. Latinagrārius
  6. Middle Frenchagrarien
  7. English todayagrarian

From Middle French agrarien, from Latin agrarius (“of the land”), from stem of ager (“field”) + -arius.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.