armus

Esperanto

Verb

armus

1. conditional of armi

Estonian

Noun

armus

1. inessive singular of arm

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit”). Latin cognates include arma, armentum, artus, ars; external cognates include Sanskrit ईर्म (īrmá, “arm, forequarter”), Ossetian арм (arm, “hand”), Bulgarian: ра́мо (rámo, “shoulder”), English arm.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈar.mus/, [ˈärmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.mus/, [ˈärmus]

Noun

armus m (genitive armī); second declension

1. (of an animal) the shoulder, side; the forequarter; rarely used of humans.
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2, line 13:

     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 armī, that is 'shoulders,' such as the shield, sword, dirk, dagger; as are those, by which we fight at a distance, missiles.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	armus	armī
genitive	armī	armōrum
dative	armō	armīs
accusative	armum	armōs
ablative	armō	armīs
vocative	arme	armī

Derived terms

• armilla
• armillum

Descendants

• Aragonese: armos
• → Spanish: armos
• Corsican: ermu
• →⇒ English: armomancy
• French: ars
  • Norman: nar (in the locution monter à nar, from Old French *monter en ars)
• Italian: armo (Romanesco, Lunigiana)
• Romanian: arm
• Sardinian: almu, armu

Further reading

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “armus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 291
• “armus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “armus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• armus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• armus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) practised in arms: exercitatus in armis
    
  • (ambiguous) to disarm a person: armis (castris) exuere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to lay down arms: ab armis discedere (Phil. 11. 33)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be under arms: in armis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to manœuvre: decurrere (in armis)
    
  • (ambiguous) by force of arms: vi et armis
    
  • (ambiguous) to fight a decisive battle: proelio, armis decertare (B. G. 1. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to fight a pitched battle: acie (armis, ferro) decernere
    

Anagrams

• rāmus