aries

See also: Aries, àries, and Áries

Asturian

Adjective

aries

1. feminine plural of ariu

Latin

Alternative forms

• arēs, arētem (dialectal but underlying most Romance)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *arjēts ~ *erjēts (compare Umbrian 𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌄𐌕𐌖 (erietu)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“young domesticated caprine”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp, erb (“kid”), Ancient Greek ἔριφος (ériphos, “kid”), displaying a different suffix, and perhaps Old Armenian որոջ (oroǰ, “lamb”), երինջ (erinǰ, “heifer”). However, as the cognates demonstrate, this has the characteristics of a substrate word.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ri.eːs/, [ˈärieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ri.es/, [ˈäːries]

Noun

ariēs m (genitive arietis); third declension

1. ram, male sheep
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.101–102:

     cum mare trux ariēs cornū dēcertat; at īdem
     frontem dīlēctae laedere parcit ovis.

     With [another] male, the fierce ram fights it out with his horn, but the same
     [ram] is careful to spare the forehead of a beloved ewe.

2. battering ram
3. beam, prop

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ariēs	arietēs
genitive	arietis	arietum
dative	arietī	arietibus
accusative	arietem	arietēs
ablative	ariete	arietibus
vocative	ariēs	arietēs

Coordinate terms

• agnus
• ovis

Derived terms

• arietārius
• arietīnus
• arietō

Descendants

• Aromanian: areati
• Champenois: aroi
• Corsican: arghjetu
• Franco-Provençal: arêt
• Istro-Romanian: arete
• Ligurian: ajou (Genoan)
• Megleno-Romanian: ăreati, ręti
• Romanian: arete

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: ariet
• → English: Aries
• → Italian: ariete
• → Portuguese: aríete
• → Spanish: ariete

See also

• arvix
• harvix

Further reading

• “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^[1], 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