Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arietine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ari-etine
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, like, or pertaining to rams.

Example Sentences

"The great public, who follow the bell-wether with trusting confidence, and with the greater eagerness if the scent of scandal comes from his direction, tumbled pell-mell through the gap in the fence discovered by their arietine leader, and the whole pasture resounded with ovine voices of dismay."

Etymology

From Latin arietīnus, from ariet(is) (“ram”) + -īnus, from oblique form of ariēs.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: arietīnus
Suffix: ariēs

Inflected Forms

more arietine (comparative) most arietine (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

Aries arietation arietiform

Questions

What does arietine mean?: Of, like, or pertaining to rams.
Where does arietine come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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