armee

See also: armée and Armee

Estonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Old French armee.

Noun

armee (genitive armee, partitive armee)

  1. army

Inflection
Inflection of armee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative armee armeed
accusative armee armeed
genitive armee 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

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French armee, from Medieval Latin armata.

Noun

armee (plural armees)

  1. army

Descendants
  • English: army (borrowed)

Middle French

Alternative forms
  • armée (16th and 17th centuries)

Etymology

First attested in France (as opposed to in Anglo-Norman) circa 1370[1]. Borrowed from Medieval Latin armata (perhaps via Anglo-Norman).

Noun

armee f (plural armees)

  1. army

Descendants

References
  1. “armée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  • 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”), nominalized feminine form of Latin armātus (“armed”), past participle of armō, armāre (“arm”).

Noun

armee 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

Verb

armee

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of armer
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