armee

See also: armée and Armee

Dutch

Alternative forms

• armée

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑrˈmeː/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧mee
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

armee f (plural armeeën, diminutive armeetje n)

1. (dated) army

   Synonym: leger

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Armee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑrˈmeː/, [ɑrˈmeː]

Noun

armee (genitive armee, partitive armeed)

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

   Synonyms: maavägi, maakaitsevägi

Declension

Declension of armee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		armee	armeed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	armee
genitive			armeede
partitive		armeed	armeid armeesid
illative		armeesse	armeedesse armeisse
inessive		armees	armeedes armeis
elative		armeest	armeedest armeist
allative		armeele	armeedele armeile
adessive		armeel	armeedel armeil
ablative		armeelt	armeedelt armeilt
translative		armeeks	armeedeks armeiks
terminative		armeeni	armeedeni
essive		armeena	armeedena
abessive		armeeta	armeedeta
comitative		armeega	armeedega

Derived terms

• Päästearmee (“Salvation Army”)

Further reading

• armee in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• arme, armeye, armye, harme

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arˈmeː/

Noun

armee (plural armees)

1. army

Descendants

• English: army

References

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• armée (16th and 17th centuries)

Etymology

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”).

Noun

armee f (plural armees)

1. army

Descendants

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

References

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

Old French

Etymology

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”).

Noun

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

Descendants

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

Verb

armee

1. feminine singular of the past participle of armer