armiger

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

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

armiger (plural armigers)

1. An esquire, originally carrying the armour of a knight; (hence, later) a man of the gentry ranking below a knight. [from 16th c.]
2. (loosely, heraldry) Any person entitled to bear a coat of arms. [from 19th c.]

• armigeral
• armigerous

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.mi.ɡer/, [ˈärmɪɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.mi.d͡ʒer/, [ˈärmid͡ʒer]

armiger (feminine armigera, neuter armigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. carrying weapons or armor/armour; armed; warlike

First/second-declension adjective (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 m (genitive armigerī, feminine armigera); second declension

1. weapon-bearer, i.e. warrior's assistant, an armor bearer, armour bearer, shield bearer
2. bodyguard
3. (Medieval Latin) squire

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• Armageddon

• “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.