arietar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ariēs

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin arietārebor.

Spanish arietar

Borrowed from Latin arietāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾjeˈtaɾ/ [a.ɾjeˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rie‧tar

Verb

arietar (first-person singular present arieto, first-person singular preterite arieté, past participle arietado)

1. (transitive, rare) to ram (strike with an implement)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of arietar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			arietar
gerund			arietando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		arietado		arietada
		plural		arietados		arietadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	arieto	arietastú arietásvos	arieta	arietamos	arietáis	arietan
	imperfect	arietaba	arietabas	arietaba	arietábamos	arietabais	arietaban
	preterite	arieté	arietaste	arietó	arietamos	arietasteis	arietaron
	future	arietaré	arietarás	arietará	arietaremos	arietaréis	arietarán
	conditional	arietaría	arietarías	arietaría	arietaríamos	arietaríais	arietarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	ariete	arietestú arietésvos2	ariete	arietemos	arietéis	arieten
	imperfect (ra)	arietara	arietaras	arietara	arietáramos	arietarais	arietaran
	imperfect (se)	arietase	arietases	arietase	arietásemos	arietaseis	arietasen
	future1	arietare	arietares	arietare	arietáremos	arietareis	arietaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		arietatú arietávos	ariete	arietemos	arietad	arieten
	negative		no arietes	no ariete	no arietemos	no arietéis	no arieten

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• ariete

Further reading

• “arietar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025