erial

Spanish

Etymology

From dialectal ería (“large section of cultivated and uncultivated fenced-in land”) + -al; from Latin ārea (“area, plot of land”).

Adjective

erial m or f (masculine and feminine plural eriales)

1. barren, uncultivated, deserted; of wasteland

Noun

erial m (plural eriales)

1. uncultivated land, wasteland

Further reading

• “erial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014