Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

armamentarium

/ˌɑɹməmənˈtɛɹi.əm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: ar-ma-men-tar-i-um
IPA: /ˌɑɹməmənˈtɛɹi.əm/

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.

Example Sentences

"Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor’s armamentarium."
"Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue."
"Ever more new drugs appeared on the market, bewildering and swamping clinicians who had been accustomed in their pharmaceutical armamentarium to a handful of painkillers, alkaloids with physiological effects, and vaccines."
"The most important tool in the photographer's armamentarium for evaluating the range of possibilities at each site is his or her feet."

Etymology

From Latin armāmentārium (“arsenal”), from armāmenta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) + -ārium. By surface analysis, armament + -arium.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: armāmentārium

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌɑɹməmənˈtɛɹi.əm/
British English: /ˌɑːməmənˈtɛəɹi.əm/

Inflected Forms

armamentariums (plural) armamentaria (plural)

Rhymes With

herbarium fusarium samarium imaginarium vivarium columbarium oceanarium seaquarium itinerarium leprosarium insectarium antiquarium

Questions

How do you pronounce armamentarium?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɑɹməmənˈtɛɹi.əm/.
What does armamentarium mean?: All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.
Where does armamentarium come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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