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armarium

armarium noun: synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”).

Noun

armarium (plural armaria)

  1. Synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”).
    • The armarium was generally placed in the atrium of the house.1870, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 136
    • Professor Clark also quotes from the Customs of the Augustinian Order, which required that the armarium be "lined inside with wood, that the damp of the walls may not moisten or stain the books," […]1995, The New Yorker, volume 71, numbers 15-22, page 88
    Synonyms:
    ambry
  2. proventriculus
    • The proventriculus of both the Blattaria and Isoptera conforms to the basic orthopteran plan and consists of an anterior armarium and the posterior stomodaeal valve; the armarium tapers posteriorly as it merges with the narrow valve.1963, Memoir - Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, →OCLC
    • The proventriculi of both Arenivaga bolliana and Hypercomps fieberi appear to lack the anterior dental belt of the armarium; otherwise, they are dissimilar.1964, F. A. McKittrick, Evolutionary Studies of Cockroaches, page 78

Examples of armarium in a sentence

  • An earlier example of an armarium (AD 424—450) appears in a representation of St Lawrence in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, for which see Kitzinger, fig. 95.1997, Jocelyn Penny Small, Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity:
  • You can see evidence of this activity: in the south wall is the armarium where the monks kept their books.1998, Jean-Pierre Mouton, Mont-Saint-Michel: A Monk Talks about His Abbey, page 40:
  • The sclerotized portion of the proventriculus (armarium) has six cuticular folds each armed with a tooth for crushing food and a pulvillus bearing hairs which forms a fine filter.1975, Lucy D. Leake, Comparative Histology: An Introduction to the Microscopic Structure of Animals:
  • Anteriorly it bears an armarium and posteriosly^([sic]) a stomodaeal valve.1991, H.S. Bhamrah, Introduction to Arthropoda, page 169:

Synonyms of armarium

Forms of armarium

pluralarmaria

Origin of armarium

Unadapted borrowing from Latin armārium. Doublet of ambry, armoire, and almirah.

Questions about armarium

What does armarium mean?
Armarium means synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”).
How do you use armarium in a sentence?
An earlier example of an armarium (AD 424—450) appears in a representation of St Lawrence in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, for which see Kitzinger, fig. 95.
What part of speech is armarium?
Armarium is a noun.
What is the plural of armarium?
The plural of armarium is armaria.

Words near armarium in the dictionary

  1. armaria
  2. armarian
  3. armarians
  4. armariola
  5. armariolum
  6. armarium
  7. armarius
  8. Armatage
  9. Armatha
  10. Armathwaite
  11. Armato

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