armiger

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin armiger (“carrying weapons or armour or having coat of arms”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɑːmɪdʒə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑːɹmɪd͡ʒɚ/ === Noun === armiger (plural armigers) An esquire, originally carrying the armour of a knight; (hence, later) a man of the gentry ranking below a knight. [from 16th c.] (loosely, heraldry) Any person entitled to bear a coat of arms. [from 19th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== armigeral armigerous ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From arma (“arms”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈar.mɪ.ɡɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈar.mi.d͡ʒer] === Adjective === armiger (feminine armigera, neuter armigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) carrying weapons or armor/armour; armed; warlike ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er). ==== Synonyms ==== (armed): armifer (warlike): armifer, armipotēns, bellātōrius, bellāx, bellicus, bellifer, belliger, bellōsus, ferōx, mīlitāris ==== Derived terms ==== armigera ==== Descendants ==== English: armiger Italian: armigero Portuguese: armígero Spanish: armígero === Noun === armiger m (genitive armigerī, feminine armigera); second declension weapon-bearer, i.e. warrior's assistant, an armor bearer, armour bearer, shield bearer bodyguard (Medieval Latin) squire ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). === See also === Armageddon === 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 “armiger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “armiger”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill