armiger

Borrowed from Latin armiger (“carrying weapons or armour”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːmɪdʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɹmɪdʒəɹ/

armiger (plural armigers)

1. (heraldry) A person entitled to bear a coat of arms.
2. A squire carrying the armour of a knight.

• armigerous

From arma (“arms”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.mi.ɡer/, [ˈar.mɪ.ɡɛr]

armiger (feminine armigera, neuter armigerum); first/second declension

1. carrying weapons or armor/armour; armed; warlike
2. (substantive) weapon-bearer, i.e. warrior's assistant, an armor bearer, armour bearer, shield bearer
3. (substantive) bodyguard

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.

• (armed): armifer
• (warlike): armifer, armipotēns, bellātōrius, bellāx, bellicus, bellifer, belliger, bellōsus, ferōx, mīlitāris

• armigera

• English: armiger
• Italian: armigero
• Portuguese: armígero
• Spanish: armígero

• armiger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• armiger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• armiger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• "armiger" in Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus. Lexique latin médieval-français-anglais. A Medieval Latin-French-English dictionary, compiled by Jan Frederik Niermeyer and C. van de Kieft. Leiden: Brill, 1976.