armamentarium

English

Etymology

From Latin armāmentārium (“arsenal”), from armāmenta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) + -ārium.

Noun

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

all of the equipment available for carrying out a task

• Portuguese: armamentário m
• Russian: инструмента́рий (ru) m (instrumentárij)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.maː.menˈtaː.ri.um/, [ärmäːmɛn̪ˈt̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ma.menˈta.ri.um/, [ärmämen̪ˈt̪äːrium]

Noun

armāmentārium n (genitive armāmentāriī or armāmentārī); second declension

1. arsenal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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