English
armament
Armament comes from Latin armāmentum ‘equipment, implement, utensil’, from armō ‘to arm’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂(e)rmosreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*armosreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarma‘arms, weapons’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEarmō‘to arm’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEarmāmentum‘equipment, implement, utensil’
- Englishearliest quotation 1927armament
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂(e)rmosreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*armosreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarma‘arms, weapons’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEarmō‘to arm’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEarmāmentum‘equipment, implement, utensil’
- Englishearliest quotation 1927armament
Earliest quotation: 1927, FRANCE: Poincaré’s Week: “Premier Raymond Poincaré, ever an arch militarist, took full…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
order, reason, ready, rate, art, article, artist, ratio, ordinary, arm, coordination, alarm, coordinate, harmony, arthritis, subordinate, ordination, articulate, anarchy, ornate, inertia, arithmetic, aristocratic, inert, artisan, adorn, harmonic, articulation, ordinate, harmonious, ordinator, ordinal, rta, ornament, ordain, artifice, ordo, harmonize, archon, rime, 76 more
through Latin arma ‘arms, weapons’
through Latin armō ‘to arm’
Today it means
noun A body of forces equipped for war.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- / armament