English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin armāmentum (arsenal), from armāmenta (tools).

Noun edit

armamentarium (plural armamentariums or armamentaria)

  1. All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.
    • 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:
      Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor’s armamentarium.
    • 2010, Timothy J. Nelson et al., "Induced pluripotent stem cells: advances to applications," Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, Dove Press, no. 3, p. 29:
      Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue.
    • 2013, Edward [L.] Shorter, “Medicine”, in Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 210:
      Ever more new drugs appeared on the market, bewildering and swamping clinicians who had been accustomed in their pharmaceutical armamentarium to a handful of painkillers, alkaloids with physiological effects, and vaccines.

Translations edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From armāmenta (tools, equipment, rigging) +‎ -ārium.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

armāmentārium n (genitive armāmentāriī or armāmentārī); second declension

  1. arsenal

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative armāmentārium armāmentāria
Genitive armāmentāriī
armāmentārī1
armāmentāriōrum
Dative armāmentāriō armāmentāriīs
Accusative armāmentārium armāmentāria
Ablative armāmentāriō armāmentāriīs
Vocative armāmentārium armāmentāria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References edit

  • armamentarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • armamentarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • armamentarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • armamentarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • armamentarium”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • armamentarium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • armamentarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin