armamentarium Latin · revision 33486

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la arma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ar.maː.mɛnˈtaː.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ar.ma.menˈtaː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''armāmentārium''' ''n'' (genitive armāmentāriī or armāmentārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|armāmenta|-ārium|t1=implements, equipment]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) a place noun; [[m|la|armāmenta]] is from [[m|la|arma|t=arms, equipment]].^(Conte 2010)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Köbler 2010) Varro noted that [[m|la|armārium|t=cupboard]] and this noun have the same origin, and Priscian defined it as the place where arms are kept.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says that arms are handed to the Roman people ''ex aedibus sacrīs armāmentāriīsque pūblicīs'', “from the temples and the public arsenals”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a store for military equipment, an armoury or arsenal:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero mentions the arsenal that Philo built for the Athenians,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Livy and Pliny the Elder use it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) The Vulgate uses it in the books of Kings and Chronicles.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval Britain it was glossed with Old English ''wæpnahus'', and one writer, walking about, saw first an ''armāmentārium'' and then a library.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions public arsenals.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it in the books of Kings.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * Medieval Latin – Ælfric's glossary gives it as ''wæpnahus''.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A storehouse for military equipment, an [[m|en|armoury]], [[m|en|arsenal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arma]]

+ * [[armārium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}