(inanimate noun) declension indefinite singular plural absolutive arma arma armak ergative armak armak armek dative armari armari armei genitive armaren armaren armen comitative armarekin armarekin armekin causative armarengatik armarengatik armengatik benefactive armarentzat armarentzat armentzat instrumental armaz armaz armez inessive armatan arman armetan locative armatako armako armetako allative armatara armara armetara terminative armataraino armaraino armetaraino directive armatarantz armarantz armetarantz destinative armatarako armarako armetarako ablative armatatik armatik armetatik partitive armarik - - prolative armatzat - -

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin arma.

Noun

arma f ‎(plural armes)

1. weapon

Derived terms

• arma blanca
• arma de foc

Verb

arma

1. third-person singular present indicative form of armar
2. second-person singular imperative form of armar

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French

Verb

arma

1. third-person singular past historic of armer

Anagrams

• rama

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin arma.

Noun

arma f ‎(plural armas)

1. weapon

Derived terms

• arma branca
• arma de fogo

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Gothic

Romanization

arma

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰

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Icelandic

Noun

arma

1. indefinite accusative plural of armur
2. indefinite genitive plural of armur

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin arma, from Latin arma ‎(“weapons of war, war, defence, tools”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ‎(“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- ‎(“to join”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/, [ˈär̺mä]
• Hyphenation: àr‧ma

Noun

arma f ‎(plural armi) (archaic plural arme)

1. weapon, arms
2. (military) arm, force

Verb

arma

1. third-person singular present indicative of armare
2. second-person singular imperative of armare

Related terms

• armacollo
• arma da fuoco
• armadio
• armaiolo
• armare
• armatura
• armeggiare
• armeria
• armiere
• armigero
• armistizio
• arma bianca
• porto d'armi

Anagrams

• amar, rama

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ‎(“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- ‎(“to join”). armentum is an independent derivation from the same root, as if from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mn̥-tom. Cognates include Sanskrit ऋत ‎(ṛtá, “order; right; agreement etc.”) and अरम् ‎(áram, “fitting”), Ancient Greek ἀραρίσκω ‎(ararískō, “to fit together”) and Old Armenian արարի ‎(arari, “I made”).

Semantic development was "that what is fitted together" → "tools" → "weapons". Also related to ars, artus, rītus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/

Noun

arma n ‎(genitive armōrum); second declension

1. (plural only) defensive arms, armor/armour, shields, weapons of war.
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 29.4

     munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare

     to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of corn, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour

2. (plural only) war
3. (plural only) soldiers, military power
4. (plural only) defence
5. (plural only) tools

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Plural
nominative	arma
genitive	armōrum
dative	armīs
accusative	arma
ablative	armīs
vocative	arma

Derived terms

• armārium
• armō
• inermis

Noun

arma f ‎(genitive armae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) weapon

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	arma	armae
genitive	armae	armārum
dative	armae	armīs
accusative	armam	armās
ablative	armā	armīs
vocative	arma	armae

Descendants

References

• arma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “arma”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence: res spectat ad vim (arma)
    
  • to call to arms: ad arma conclamare (Liv. 3. 50)
    
  • men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus
    
  • men exempt from service owing to age: qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt or aetate ad bellum inutiles
    
  • to issue a general call to arms: omnes ad arma convocare
    
  • to join forces with some one: copias (arma) cum aliquo iungere or se cum aliquo iungere
    
  • to take up one's arms: arma capere, sumere
    
  • to make ready for battle: arma expedire (Tusc. 2. 16. 37)
    
  • to pile arms (cf. sect. XII. 3, note vestem deponere...): arma ponere (not deponere)
    
  • to wrest weapons from some one's hands: extorquere arma e manibus
    
  • matters have reached the fighting-stage: res ad arma venit
    
  • to be the aggressor in a war; to act on the offensive: bellum or arma ultro inferre
    
  • to surrender weapons: arma tradere
    
  • to rush to arms: ad arma concurrere
    
  • to have recourse to force of arms: ad vim et arma descendere (vid. sect. V. 9, note Similarly...)
    
  • to throw away one's arms: arma abicere
    
  • (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
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 54

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin arma.

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin arma ‎(“weapon”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ‎(“fitting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ma/

Noun

arma f ‎(plural armas)

1. weapon; arm

Related terms

• armado
• armar

Descendants

• Galician: arma
• Portuguese: arma

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Old Provençal

Etymology

Latin arma.

Adjective

arma f ‎(oblique plural armas, nominative singular arma, nominative plural armas)

1. weapon

References

• (fr)(de) arma in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese arma, from Latin arma ‎(“weapon”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ‎(“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- ‎(“to join”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.mɐ/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /aɹ.ma/, /aɹ.mɐ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /aɻ.ma/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /aχ.mɐ/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ah.mɐ/

Noun

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

Synonyms

• armamento

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

arma

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of armar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of armar

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Quechua

Noun

arma

1. basin, sink, bathtub
2. the Big Dipper

Declension

See also

• armay

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin armāre, present active infinitive of armō.

Alternative forms

• înarma

Verb

a arma ‎(third-person singular present armează, past participle armat) 1st conj.

1. to prepare a weapon for firing
2. to arm, equip
3. (figuratively) to strengthen by adding reinforcement (e.g. armor, a mineshaft, etc.)

Conjugation

Related terms

• armă
• armătură

Etymology 2

From French armer.

Verb

a arma ‎(third-person singular present armează, past participle armat) 1st conj.

1. to launch a ship in service with all necessary equipment

Etymology 3

Noun

arma f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of armă.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin arma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos ‎(“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- ‎(“to join”).

Noun

arma f ‎(plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

   El arma secreta‎ ― the secret weapon

   Las armas secretas‎ ― the secret weapons

Usage notes

• The feminine noun arma is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el arma

• However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Derived terms

• arma blanca f
• arma de fuego f
• armería f
• armero m

Verb

arma

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of armar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of armar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of armar.

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Swedish

Adjective

arma

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of arm.