armus
Esperanto
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit”). Latin cognates include arma, armentum, artus, ars; external cognates include Sanskrit ईर्म (īrmá, “arm, forequarter”), Ossetian арм (arm, “hand”), Bulgarian: ра́мо (rámo, “shoulder”), English arm.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.mus/, [ˈärmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈar.mus/, [ˈärmus]
Noun
armus m (genitive armī); second declension
- (of an animal) the shoulder, side; the forequarter; rarely used of humans.
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2, line 13:
- Arma propriē dīcuntur ab armīs, id est humerīs, dēpendentia, ut scūtum, gladius, pūgiō, sīca; ut ea, quibus procul proeliāmur, tēla.
- Arma 'weapons' are, properly speaking, that which hangs from the armī, that is 'shoulders,' such as the shield, sword, dirk, dagger; as are those, by which we fight at a distance, missiles.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | armus | armī |
Genitive | armī | armōrum |
Dative | armō | armīs |
Accusative | armum | armōs |
Ablative | armō | armīs |
Vocative | arme | armī |
Derived terms
- armilla
- armillum
Descendants
Further reading
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “armus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 291
- “armus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “armus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- armus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- armus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) practised in arms: exercitatus in armis
- (ambiguous) to disarm a person: armis (castris) exuere aliquem
- (ambiguous) to lay down arms: ab armis discedere (Phil. 11. 33)
- (ambiguous) to be under arms: in armis esse
- (ambiguous) to manœuvre: decurrere (in armis)
- (ambiguous) by force of arms: vi et armis
- (ambiguous) to fight a decisive battle: proelio, armis decertare (B. G. 1. 50)
- (ambiguous) to fight a pitched battle: acie (armis, ferro) decernere
- (ambiguous) practised in arms: exercitatus in armis
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