arietarius
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.ri.ɛˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.ri.eˈt̪aː.ri.us]
Adjective
arietārius (feminine arietāria, neuter arietārium); first/second-declension adjective
- relating to the battering ram
- Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura 10.13:
- is autem, quod tardos conatus habuerat, testudinem arietariam appellare coepit.
- Translation by Morris Hicky Morgan
- As the machine made but slow progress, he first gave it the name of the tortoise of the ram.
- Translation by Morris Hicky Morgan
- is autem, quod tardos conatus habuerat, testudinem arietariam appellare coepit.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | arietārius | arietāria | arietārium | arietāriī | arietāriae | arietāria | |
| genitive | arietāriī | arietāriae | arietāriī | arietāriōrum | arietāriārum | arietāriōrum | |
| dative | arietāriō | arietāriae | arietāriō | arietāriīs | |||
| accusative | arietārium | arietāriam | arietārium | arietāriōs | arietāriās | arietāria | |
| ablative | arietāriō | arietāriā | arietāriō | arietāriīs | |||
| vocative | arietārie | arietāria | arietārium | arietāriī | arietāriae | arietāria | |
References
- “arietarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arietarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.