different between alarum vs larum

English

Etymology

From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).

Noun

alarum (plural alarums)

1. (archaic) A danger signal or warning.
2. A call to arms.
   • 1969, Michael Arlen, Living Room War

     It seems to me that by the same process they are also made less "real" - distinguished, in part, by the physical size of the television screen, which, for all the industry's advances, still shows one a picture of men three inches tall shooting at other men three inches tall, and trivialized, or at least tamed, by the enveloping cozy alarums of the household.

   • 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus. Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press. p. 95.

     On the cable news channels, especially, there were teary-eyed interviews with bystanders; alarums from both the gun control advocates on the one side and the Second Amendment nuts on the other; and--inevitably, inappropriately--debates over what the shooting might mean for this closely-watched Senate race.

Derived terms

• alarums and excursions

Verb

alarum (third-person singular simple present alarums, present participle alaruming, simple past and past participle alarumed)

1. (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.

Usage notes

• Alarum is an old spelling of alarm (as a noun or a verb), which has stayed around as a deliberate archaism. Possibly it is retained because of its use in Shakespeare's plays.

See also

• alarm

Anagrams

• marula

Latin

Noun

?l?rum f

1. genitive plural of ?la

English

Noun

larum (plural larums)

1. Obsolete form of alarum.

Verb

larum (third-person singular simple present larums, present participle laruming, simple past and past participle larumed)

1. Obsolete form of alarum.

Anagrams

• mural, rumal

Latin

Noun

larum

1. accusative singular of larus

Polish

Etymology

From Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, arm?rum (“weapons”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.rum/

Noun

larum n (indeclinable)

1. (derogatory) uproar, especially misguided or dishonest

   Synonyms: wrzawa, wrzask, zamieszanie, zgie?k

2. (archaic) alarum, call to arms
3. (dated) alarm signal

Further reading

• larum in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• larum in Polish dictionaries at PWN