armiger
Americannoun
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a person entitled to armorial bearings.
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an armorbearer to a knight; a squire.
noun
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a person entitled to bear heraldic arms, such as a sovereign or nobleman
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a squire carrying the armour of a medieval knight
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of armiger
1755–65; < Medieval Latin: squire, Latin: armorbearer (noun), armorbearing (adj.), equivalent to armi- (combining form of arma arm 2 ) + -ger bearing, base of gerere to carry, wear
Example Sentences
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On his burly sword-arm, each intrepid champion wore an "armiger," or ribbon of his colour.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
Hétfalusy questioned Dudoky's gentility, and the latter could not make good his claim to be regarded as an armiger.
From The Day of Wrath by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
Further, the form of grant practically always includes a characterization of the grantee as "dilectus vallettus," "dilectus serviens," "dilectus armiger," etc.
From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert
As evidence of this confusion we find men called "vallettus" after they have been called "armiger," and sometimes men who are normally called "vallettus camere Regis" named as "vallettus hospicii Regis."
From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert
The following nouns in -er are declined like puer: adulter, adulterer; gener, son-in-law; Līber, Bacchus; socer, father-in-law; vesper, evening; and compounds in -fer and -ger, as signifer, armiger.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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