arma – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of arma

Noun: arma
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter, Feminine Declension: Second, First

Nominative

Singulararma
Pluralarma; armae

Genitive

Singulararmae
Pluralarmōrum; armārum

Dative

Singulararmae
Pluralarmīs

Accusative

Singulararmam
Pluralarma; armās

Ablative

Singulararmā
Pluralarmīs

Vocative

Singulararma
Pluralarma; armae

Sample Sentences

  • […]: mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit. ([…] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 7.14]
  • mūnīre urbem, frūmentum convehere, tēla arma parāre (to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of corn, to prepare a supply of missiles and arms) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 29.4.2.3]
  • respicit intereā clāvam spoliumque leōnis, (Meanwhile, [Chiron] looks at the club and the spoils of the lion, and says, “Man [worthy] for these arms, and arms worthy for the man!”
  • (The centaur Chiron addresses Hercules who has slain the Nemean lion in close combat.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.393–394]
  • 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 'armi', that is 'shoulders,' such as the shield, sword, dirk, dagger; and such as that using which we fight at a distance, missiles.) [1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2, line 13:]
  • [...] nōn arma iuventūs / exercet, [...]. (… nor do young [soldiers] practice their military drills, ….
  • (Carthage becomes vulnerable once its youth stop training for combat; figuratively, the queen has lowered her own defenses.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.86-87]

Etymology

1. From Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). armentum is an independent derivation from the same root, as if from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mn̥-tom. Cognates include Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “order; right; agreement etc.”) and अरम् (áram, “fitting”), Ancient Greek ἀραρίσκω (ararískō, “to fit together”) and Old Armenian արարի (arari, “I made”).
2. Semantic development was "that what is fitted together" → "tools" → "weapons". Also related to ars, artus, rītus.

Verbs referencing "arma"

Irish Nouns arm, English Nouns armistice, French Nouns armistice, French Nouns arme, Asturian Nouns arma, Catalan Nouns arma, Galician Nouns arma, Italian Nouns arma, Old Portuguese Nouns arma, Portuguese Nouns arma, Spanish Nouns arma, English Nouns alarm, Portuguese Nouns aro, English Nouns arms, Galician Nouns armisticio, Spanish Nouns armisticio, Portuguese Nouns armistício, Italian Nouns armistizio, Romanian Nouns armă, Catalan Nouns armistici, Portuguese Nouns armeiro, English Nouns armatole, Czech Nouns armatol.

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