different between armament vs disarmament

English

Etymology

Latin arm?mentum, from arm? (“I arm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)m?m?nt/

Noun

armament (countable and uncountable, plural armaments)

1. A body of forces equipped for war.
2. (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
3. Any equipment for resistance.
4. The process of building up military capacity.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin arm?mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??.m??ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r.m??men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?.ma?ment/

Noun

armament m (plural armaments)

1. arming

Related terms

• armar

Further reading

• “armament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “armament” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “armament” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “armament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

From French armement

Noun

armament n (plural armamente)

1. weaponry

Declension

English

Etymology

disarm +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???(r)m?m?nt/

Noun

disarmament (countable and uncountable, plural disarmaments)

1. The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
2. The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
   • 1974, Black Belt (volume 12, number 11, page 15)

     With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.

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