armee

• armée

From Middle Dutch armeye, borrowed from Old French armee, from Latin armāta.

• IPA^(key): /ɑrˈmeː/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧mee
• Rhymes: -eː

armee f (plural armeeën, diminutive armeetje n)

1. (dated) army

   Synonym: leger

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Borrowed from German Armee.

• IPA^(key): /ɑrˈmeː/,

armee (genitive armee, partitive armeed)

1. (military) army (military force concerned mainly with ground operations)

   Synonyms: maavägi, maakaitsevägi

• Päästearmee (“Salvation Army”)

• armee in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• arme, armeye, armye, harme

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French armee, from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

• IPA^(key): /arˈmeː/

armee (plural armees)

1. army

• English: army

• “armẹ̄(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• armée (16th and 17th centuries)

First attested in French (as opposed to in Anglo-Norman) circa 1370. Borrowed (perhaps via Anglo-Norman) from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

armee f (plural armees)

1. army

• French: armée
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: armé
• → German: Armee
  • → Estonian: armee

• armee on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

From the feminine past participle of armer, corresponding to Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

armee oblique singular, f (oblique plural armees, nominative singular armee, nominative plural armees)

1. (Anglo-Norman) army
   • 1847, M. Champollion-Figeac, Lettres de rois, reines et autres personnages des cours de France et d'Angleterre depuis Louis VII jusqu'à Henri IV, tirées des archives de Londres, Paris (date of cited texts 1301-1515)

     une autre tres puissante, grande et notable armee

     another very powerful, big and notable army

• Middle French: armee
  • French: armée
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: armé
  • → German: Armee
    • → Estonian: armee
• Norman: armée
• → Middle English: armee, arme, armeye, armye, harme
  • English: army

armee

1. feminine singular of the past participle of armer