armarium Latin · revision 33921

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la arma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [arˈmaː.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [arˈmaː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''armārium''' ''n'' (genitive armāriī or armārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|arma|-ārium|t1=tools, equipment, arms]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) A grammarian, followed by Isidore, defines it as the place where the tools of any trade are kept.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it first,^(Köbler 2010) as when a character in the ''Epidicus'' says he takes as much silver as he likes from a locked and sealed cupboard.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a cupboard or chest for food, clothes or money: Cato has a store cupboard, Plautus opens one, and Cicero tells of a cupboard in the house holding a sum of money and gold.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also a bookcase,^(OLD 2012) and Gellius uses it of the box set with spikes in which Regulus was put to death.^(Lewis & Short 1879) An inscription uses it of a two-storeyed tomb.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it means an archive and an armoury,^(Niermeyer 1976) and Stelten gives "locker, closet, vault".^(Stelten 1995) Through Old French it is the source of the English [[m|en|armoire]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a locked cupboard.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of a store cupboard.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a cupboard holding money.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the spiked box of Regulus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1570s – The English [[m|en|armoire]] is borrowed from French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|cupboard]], [[m|en|closet]], chest (for food, clothes or money); a [[m|en|bookcase]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A tomb, sepulchral monument.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|archive]]; an [[m|en|armoury]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[armariolum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arma]]

+ * [[armāmentārium]]

+ * [[en|armoire]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}