armiger Latin · revision 31955

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂(e)r-mo-, ine-pro *h₂ǵ-es-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈar.mɪ.ɡɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈar.mi.d͡ʒer]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|arma|-ger|t1=weapons|t2=bearing]], with the second part from [[m|la|gerō|t=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|arma]] to [[itc-pro|*armo-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂(e)r-mo-|t=fitting]], from a root “to join”, and [[m|la|gerō]] to [[m|itc-pro|*ges-e/o-]] and [[m|ine-pro|*h₂ǵ-es-|t=to carry]], a derivative of the root of [[m|la|agō]].^(de Vaan 2008) The grammarian Priscian cites it as a noun compounded with a verb.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it as a noun for an armour-bearer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means bearing arms, armed or warlike, as in Accius' “in a winged, not an armed body”, and in Propertius of the field sown with dragon's teeth that brought forth armed men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The noun, its commonest use, is an armour-bearer or squire, as Butes was to Anchises in Virgil;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero calls Catiline's follower Sergius his ''armiger'', and the eagle is Jupiter's armour-bearer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The feminine ''armigera'' is used of Diana's attendant in Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate uses it for the armour-bearers of the Old Testament.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin it is a warrior's assistant and, in the technical sense, an [[m|en|esquire]], a service regarded as honourable.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an armour-bearer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius as an adjective, “armed”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of Jupiter's eagle and of Butes, squire of Anchises.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of the armour-bearers of the Old Testament.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Bearing arms, armed, [[m|en|warlike]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a field, producing armed men.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|armour-bearer]], [[m|en|squire]]; a follower.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Iovis armiger'', the [[m|en|eagle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|esquire]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arma]]

+ * [[gero|alt=gerō]]

+ * [[en|armiger]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}