Translation
to arm, to equip with weapons
Word origin
From Latin arma, weapons, literally the tools fitted to the arm. English army, armour, armistice and alarm all descend from it, alarm by way of the Italian cry all'arme, to arms.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- arma
- English cognates
- arm, armour, armistice, alarm
Examples
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The king armed his soldiers.
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They armed themselves with swords.
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Nobody came armed to the meeting.
The root is doing more work than the verb alone. is a weapon, an army, senarma unarmed, i to disarm, and each is built by rule from arm- rather than borrowed separately. Note that Esperanto keeps the two English arms apart: the limb is , and never means anything to do with it.
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