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arma

1. definite nominative singular of armë

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾma/
• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Syllabification: ar‧ma

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

• “arma”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “arma”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

arma f (plural armes)

1. weapon

• arma blanca
• arma de fueu

• armar

Compare Spanish arma.

arma inan

1. weapon

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈar.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaɾ.ma]

Inherited from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

arma f (plural armes)

1. weapon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• “arma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “arma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ma/

arma

1. third-person singular past historic of armer

• rama

arma

1. (Literary) forms the future tense

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”). Compare Portuguese arma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɾmɐ]

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

• arma branca
• arma de fogo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “arma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “arma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (La Maddalena) IPA^(key): /ˈarma/^[1]

arma f (plural armi)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of alma (“weapon”)

arma

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰

arma

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

arma (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

• armea

arma

1. inflection of arm:
   1. vocative plural
   2. (archaic) nominative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/
• Rhymes: -arma
• Hyphenation: àr‧ma

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

arma f (plural armi or (archaic or poetic) arme)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• amar, marà, rama

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”).^[1]

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/, [ˈärmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/, [ˈärmä]

arma n pl (genitive armōrum); second declension

(plural only)

1. arms, weapons of war, weaponry, instruments (implements of warfare)

   Hypernym: tēla (“offensive weapons”)

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4.2.3:

     mūnīre urbem, frūmentum convehere, tēla arma parāre

     to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of corn, to prepare a supply of missiles and arms

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.393–394:

     respicit intereā clāvam spoliumque leōnis,
     ‘vir’ que ait ‘hīs armīs, armaque digna virō!’

     Meanwhile, [Chiron] looks at the club and the spoils of the lion, and says, “Man [worthy] for these arms, and arms worthy for the man!”
     (The centaur Chiron addresses Hercules who has slain the Nemean lion in close combat.)

   • 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 'armi', that is 'shoulders,' such as the shield, sword, dirk, dagger; and such as that using which we fight at a distance, missiles.

   1. defensive arms: armour, shields (etc.)
   2. close-quarter weapons (offensive or defensive)

      Antonym: tēla (“missiles”)

   3. (poetic) missile weapons

      Synonym: tēla

2. (metonymically) military action, war (arms as instruments of policy)
3. (abstract or concrete) warfare, battle (military exploits)

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.86-87:

     [...] nōn arma iuventūs / exercet, [...].

     [...] nor do young [soldiers] practice their military drills, [...].
     (Carthage becomes vulnerable once its youth stop training for combat; figuratively, the queen has lowered her own defenses.)

4. (metonymically) troops, military forces, the army
5. weapons as means of defence
6. (by extension) tools, equipment

   Synonym: armāmenta

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

A nominative plural → feminine singular transfer from the "weapons" sense of Etymology 1, common during the Late Latin period.

arma f (genitive armae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a piece of weaponry

First-declension noun.

• "arma", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arma” on page 187 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ma/

Borrowed from Italian arma.

arma f (plural armi)

1. weapon (instrument of attack or defense in combat)
2. weapon (means of harming or exerting control)
3. (heraldry) coat of arms

arma (imperfect jarma, past participle armat, verbal noun armar)

1. Alternative form of rama

arma

1. A command to speed up

From Old Occitan arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

Inherited from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ma/

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon; arm

• Fala: arma
• Galician: arma
• Portuguese: arma

• Universo Cantigas - "arma"

From armr.

arma f (genitive ǫrmu, plural ǫrmur)

1. pity

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “arma”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”).

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

1. weapon

• armar
• armat

• Occitan: arma

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “arma”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 23

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ah.mɐ/, /ah.ma/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁmɐ, (Portugal) -aɾmɐ
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). Compare Galician arma.

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon

   Synonym: armamento

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• “arma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “arma”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

arma

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

• armay

Borrowed from Latin armāre, French armer, or Italian armare.

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

1. to prepare a weapon for firing
2. to arm, equip

   Synonyms: înarma, întrarma

3. (figuratively) to strengthen by adding reinforcement (e.g. armor, a mineshaft, etc.)

Borrowed from French armer.

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of armă

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾma/ [ˈaɾ.ma]
• Rhymes: -aɾma
• Syllabification: ar‧ma

Inherited from Old Spanish arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

arma f (plural armas)

1. weapon, arm

   El arma secreta ― the secret weapon

   Las armas secretas ― the secret weapons

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like arma take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el arma. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al arma, del arma.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un arma or una arma. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor arma, una buena arma.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el arma única, un(a) arma buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

• → Basque: arma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arma

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

• “arma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• amar, rama

arma

1. inflection of arm:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• aram., mara, rama

From Ottoman Turkish آرما, آرمه (arma), from Italian arma.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈma/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma

arma (definite accusative armayı, plural armalar)

1. coat of arms