armiger

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin armiger (“carrying weapons or armour or having coat of arms”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːmɪdʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹmɪd͡ʒɚ/

Noun

armiger (plural armigers)

1. An esquire, originally carrying the armour of a knight; (hence, later) a man of the gentry ranking below a knight. [from 16th c.]
2. (loosely, heraldry) Any person entitled to bear a coat of arms. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• armigeral
• armigerous

Translations

person entitled to bear a coat of arms

• German: Wappenträger m
• Italian: armigero (it) m
• Macedonian: грбо́носец m (grbónosec)
• Portuguese: armígero (pt) m
• Russian: дворяни́н (ru) m (dvorjanín)

squire carrying the armour of a knight

• Armenian: զինակիր (hy) (zinakir)
• Catalan: escuder (ca) m
• Hebrew: נושא כלים m, נער (he) m
• Italian: scudiero (it) m
• Macedonian: оруже́носец m (oružénosec)
• Russian: оружено́сец (ru) m (oruženósec)
• Spanish: armígero (es) m
• Swedish: väpnare (sv) c

Latin

FWOTD – 4 June 2013

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder.

Latin arma

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Italic *gezō

Latin gerō

Latin -ger

Latin armiger

From arma (“arms”) + -ger (“bearing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.mɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.mi.d͡ʒer]

Adjective

armiger (feminine armigera, neuter armigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. carrying weapons or armor/armour; armed; warlike

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	armiger	armigera	armigerum		armigerī	armigerae	armigera
genitive	armigerī	armigerae	armigerī		armigerōrum	armigerārum	armigerōrum
dative	armigerō	armigerae	armigerō		armigerīs
accusative	armigerum	armigeram	armigerum		armigerōs	armigerās	armigera
ablative	armigerō	armigerā	armigerō		armigerīs
vocative	armiger	armigera	armigerum		armigerī	armigerae	armigera

Synonyms

• (armed): armifer
• (warlike): armifer, armipotēns, bellātōrius, bellāx, bellicus, bellifer, belliger, bellōsus, ferōx, mīlitāris

Derived terms

• armigera

Descendants

• English: armiger
• Italian: armigero
• Portuguese: armígero
• Spanish: armígero

Noun

armiger m (genitive armigerī, feminine armigera); second declension

1. weapon-bearer, i.e. warrior's assistant, an armor bearer, armour bearer, shield bearer
2. bodyguard
3. (Medieval Latin) squire

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	armiger	armigerī
genitive	armigerī	armigerōrum
dative	armigerō	armigerīs
accusative	armigerum	armigerōs
ablative	armigerō	armigerīs
vocative	armiger	armigerī

See also

• Armageddon

References

• “armiger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “armiger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “armiger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “armiger”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill