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Asturian
Adjective
aries
- feminine plural of ariu
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“certain domestic animal”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp (“kid”), erb, Ancient Greek ἔριφος (ériphos).
Pronunciation
Noun
ariēs m (genitive arietis); third declension
- ram, male sheep
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.101–102:
- cum mare trux ariēs cornū dēcertat; at īdem
frontem dīlēctae laedere parcit ovis.- With male, the fierce ram fights it out with his horn, but the same
is careful to spare the forehead of a beloved ewe.
- battering ram
- beam, prop
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “aries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the battering-ram strikes the wall: aries murum attingit, percutit
- “aries”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aries”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54