armamentarium
English
Etymology
From Latin armāmentum (“arsenal”), from armāmenta (“tools”).
Noun
armamentarium (plural armamentariums or armamentaria)
- All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.
- 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.
- 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:
Translations
all of the equipment available for carrying out a task
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Latin
Etymology
From armāmenta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) + -ārium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.maː.menˈtaː.ri.um/, [ärmäːmɛn̪ˈt̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ar.ma.menˈta.ri.um/, [ärmämen̪ˈt̪äːrium]
Noun
armāmentārium n (genitive armāmentāriī or armāmentārī); second declension
- arsenal
Declension
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
- “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, 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