aries

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“certain domestic animal”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp (“kid”), erb, Ancient Greek ἔριφος (ériphos) and perhaps Old Armenian արոջ (aroǰ, “lamb”) and երինջ (erinǰ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ri.eːs/

Noun

ariēs m (genitive arietis); third declension

1. ram
2. battering ram
3. beam, prop

See also

• arvix
• harvix

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, page 54