arieto Latin · revision 33717

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁r-i-(e)t-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈri.ɛ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈriː.e.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''arietō''' (present infinitive arietāre, perfect active arietāvī, supine arietātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Virgil, Valerius Flaccus and Silius scan it in three syllables, ''ārietat''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ariēs|-ō|t1=ram]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|ariēs]] to [[itc-pro|*a/eriēt-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁r-i-(e)t-|t=a domestic animal]], cognate with [[grc|ἔριφος|tr=ériphos|t=kid]] and [[sga|heirp|t=she-goat, doe]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Truculentus'': “who is that battering our house so violently?”^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to strike violently like a ram, and in the passive with ''inter sē'' to strike together.^(OLD 2012) Accius has an animal charging at the speaker with its horns, ''in me arietare'', a line Cicero quotes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is poetic or post-Augustan prose, and especially frequent in Seneca:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca has weapons and teeth clashing together, things that cannot collide, and the warning that one must slip, stumble and fall.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius has falling to the ground, and Pliny the Elder roofs clashing with opposite blows.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively Seneca uses it of a mind troubled by something unaccustomed.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of battering a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius, of an animal butting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, in three syllables.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of clashing weapons and of stumbling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To strike violently, [[m|en|batter]], [[m|en|ram]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(passive, with inter sē)'' to strike together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To charge or [[m|en|butt]] against.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To collide.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|stumble]], totter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To disturb, harass.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[arietātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ariēs]]

+ * [[arietārius]]

+ * [[arietīnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}