Arietînus, pen. prod. Adiectiuum. Plin. Arietinum iecur. Of a ranune.Arieto arietas, pen. cor. arietâre. Ci. To rush or heat at a thing. Arietare, per trãslationem. Curi. Quem Dioxippus arietauit in terram. To strike, to cast downe.Arietare ædes.Plaut.Arietare in portam.Virg.To rush against the gare.Arietare inter se.Senec.To dash one against the other. Arietare, Neutrum, Senec.To fail or decay.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ărĭĕtīnus, a, um, adj. [aries]. I.Of or from a ram, ram's-: ungula, Plin. 29, 4, 27, 88: pulmo, id. 30, 8, 22, 72: cornua, Pall. 4, 10, 28.—II.Similar to a ram's head: cicer, Col. 2, 10, 20; Plin. 18, 12, 32, 124; Petr. 35.—III. Arietinum oraculum, an ambiguous oracle (the figure taken from the divergent horns of a ram), Gell. 3, 3, 8 (cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 196).