different between equipment vs armamentarium

English

Etymology

From equip +? -ment, or from French équipement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kw?pm?nt/

Noun

equipment (usually uncountable, plural equipments)

1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
   • (Can we date this quote?) David Hume:

     The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.

2. Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
   • 1851, Henry Longfellow, The Golden Legend

     Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight.

Derived terms

Related terms

• equip

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin arm?mentum (“arsenal”), from arm?menta (“tools”).

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.
   • 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.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From arm?menta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) +? -?rium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.ma?.men?ta?.ri.um/, [ärmä?m?n??t?ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ma.men?ta.ri.um/, [?rm?m?n??t????ium]

Noun

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

1. arsenal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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?^[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