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Armiger
Ar′mi-ger
,Noun.
[L.
armiger
armor bearer; arma
arms + gerere
to bear.] Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire.
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Definition 2024
armiger
armiger
English
Noun
armiger (plural armigers)
- (heraldry) A person entitled to bear a coat of arms.
- A squire carrying the armour of a knight.
Derived terms
Translations
person entitled to bear a coat of arms
squire carrying the armour of a knight.
Latin
Etymology
arma (“arms”) + -iger (“bearing”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.mi.ɡer/, [ˈar.mɪ.ɡɛr]
Adjective
armiger m (feminine armigera, neuter armigerum); first/second declension
- Carrying weapons or armor/armour; armed; warlike.
- (substantive) Weapon-bearer, i.e. warrior's assistant, an armor bearer, armour bearer, shield bearer.
- (substantive) bodyguard
Inflection
First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | armiger | armigera | armigerum | armigerī | armigerae | armigera | |
| genitive | armigerī | armigerae | armigerī | armigerōrum | armigerārum | armigerōrum | |
| dative | armigerō | 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
Descendants
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “armiger”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- "armiger" in Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus. Lexique latin médieval-français-anglais. A Medieval Latin-French-English dictionary, compiled by Jan Frederik Niermeyer and C. van de Kieft. Leiden: Brill, 1976.