different between armarium vs ambry

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin arm?rium. Doublet of ambry and armoire.

Noun

armarium (plural armaria)

1. Synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”)
   • 1998, Jean-Pierre Mouton, Mont-Saint-Michel: A Monk Talks about His Abbey (page 40)

     You can see evidence of this activity: in the south wall is the armarium where the monks kept their books.

2. (entomology) proventriculus

Latin

Etymology

From arma (“weapons, tools”) +? -?rium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar?ma?.ri.um/, [är?mä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar?ma.ri.um/, [?r?m???ium]

Noun

arm?rium n (genitive arm?ri? or arm?r?); second declension

1. a cupboard, closet, chest, especially one in the sacristy of a church where vestments are kept
2. a safe for food, clothing, or money

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Related terms

• arma
• arm?ment?rium
• arm?riolum

Descendants

References

• armarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• armarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• armarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• armarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• armarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• armarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Alternative forms

• almery, aumbrie, aumbry, ambery

Etymology

From Middle English almerie, from Anglo-Norman almarie, aumer, etc., from Old French almarie, from Latin arm?rium. Doublet of armarium and armoire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m.b?i/

Noun

ambry (plural ambries)

1. (now historical, rare) A bookcase; a library or archive. [from 13^thc.]
2. (obsolete) A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage.
3. (now rare) A pantry, or place to store food. [from 14^thc.]
4. (architecture) A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc.; an armarium. [from 16^thc.]
   • 1983, Dennis G. Michno, A Priest's Handbook, Morehouse 1998, p.75:

     Nothing else should be kept in the tabernacle or aumbry where the Sacrament is reserved, but a small container of water and a cloth may be kept on the shelf for cleansing one's fingers.

   • 2003, Wm. B. Eerdmans, translating Erwin Fahlbusch et al., The Encylopedia of Christianity, vol.III, p.321:

     Portions of the consecrated bread from the Eucharist were stored or reserved in an ambry or tabernacle to be taken to the sick.

Synonyms

• (armarium): armarium
• (cupboard): cupboard, pantry

Anagrams

• Byram, Mabry, barmy