arietine

Latin arietinus

arietine (comparative more arietine, superlative most arietine)

1. (zoology, rare) Of, like, or pertaining to rams.
   • 1871 June 1, “Morality in Fiction”, in The Literary World, page 8:

     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.

• Aries
• arietate
• arietation
• arietiform

• “arietine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• aerinite, inertiae, inertiæ

arietīne

1. vocative masculine singular of arietīnus