different between eyrie vs aries

English

Alternative forms

• eyry, aerie, aery, ayrie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English eire, aire, from Old French aire or Medieval Latin aeria. Old French aire, in the sense of an eagle's nest, may have derived from Latin ager, or may less likely be related to the other senses, ultimately from Latin ?rea.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????i/, /????i/, /?a??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???i/, /???i/, /?a??i/
• Rhymes: -??ri

Noun

eyrie (plural eyries)

1. The nest of a bird of prey.
2. Any high and remote but commanding place.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?r-i-(e)t- (“certain domestic animal”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp (“kid”), erb, Ancient Greek ?????? (ériphos).

Alternative forms

• ar?s, ar?tem (dialectal but underlying most Romance)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ri.e?s/, [?ä?ie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ri.es/, [????i?s]

Noun

ari?s m (genitive arietis); third declension

1. ram
2. battering ram
3. beam, prop

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Coordinate terms

• agnus
• ovis

Derived terms

• ariet?rius
• ariet?nus
• ariet?

Descendants

See also

• arvix
• harvix

References

• aries in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aries in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• aries in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aries in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 54