armiger

American  

[ahr-mi-jer] / ˈɑr mɪ dʒər /

noun

1. a person entitled to armorial bearings.

2. an armorbearer to a knight; a squire.

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armiger British  

/ ˈɑːmɪdʒə, ɑːˈmɪdʒərəs /

noun

1. a person entitled to bear heraldic arms, such as a sovereign or nobleman

2. a squire carrying the armour of a medieval knight

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Other Word Forms

• armigeral adjective
• armigerous adjective

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

"Ecce, inquam, Veneris hortator et armiger Liber advenit ultro," where see Pric�us.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

Under the communion table, Hic jacet William Hoo armiger, qui obiit 2do mensis Sept.

From The History and Antiquities of Horsham by Dudley, Howard

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 Hulbert, James Root

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 Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Then he found his answer, and this time it was John Stirling, armiger, scholar in divinity, who spoke.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)