Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “arma”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
[…]: mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorumarmis ornatos imponit.
[…]: he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carryingweapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.
respicit intereā clāvam spoliumque leōnis, ‘vir’ que ait ‘hīsarmīs,armaque digna virō!’
Meanwhile, [Chiron] looks at the club and the spoils of the lion, and says, “Man [worthy]for thesearms, andarms worthy for the man!” (The centaurChiron addressesHercules who has slain theNemean lion in close combat.)
Arma propriē dīcuntur ab armīs, id est humerīs, dēpendentia, ut scūtum, gladius, pūgiō, sīca; ut ea, quibus procul proeliāmur, tēla.
'Arma' 'weapons' are, properly speaking, that which hangs from the 'armi', that is 'shoulders,' such as the shield, sword, dirk, dagger; and such as that using which we fight at a distance, missiles.
[...] nor do young [soldiers] practice theirmilitary drills, [...]. (Carthage becomes vulnerable once its youth stop training for combat; figuratively, the queen has lowered her own defenses.)
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “arma, -ōrum”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page54
2023 July 24, Paul LeBlanc, Annette Choi, “ANÁLISIS | Estados Unidos supera los 400 tiroteos masivos en lo que va de 2023”, inCNN en Español[1]:
Casi 1 de cada 5 adultos estadounidenses ha tenido un familiar muerto porarma de fuego, incluidos homicidios y suicidios, según una encuesta realizada en 2023 por la KFF (antes conocida como Kaiser Family Foundation).[…] “Este es el único país del mundo en el que los hombres que rompen con la realidad exorcizan sus demonios mediante matanzas masivas”, declaró a CNN a principios de este año el senador demócrata Chris Murphy, de Connecticut, que ha hecho de la legislación sobre seguridad de lasarmas uno de los ejes de su trabajo tras el tiroteo de 2012 en la escuela primaria Sandy Hook.
Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed/ˈa/ likearma, the singular definite article takes the form ofel (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usualla:el arma. This includes the contracted formsal anddel (instead ofa la andde la, respectively):al arma,del arma.
This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form ofun, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine formuna also occurs):un arma oruna arma. The same is true with determinersalgún/alguna andningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g.,veintiún/veintiuna).
However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la,una etc.) are used:la mejor arma,una buena arma.
In these cases,el andun are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latinilla anduna, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they areallomorphs of the feminine singular articlesla anduna.
The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun:el arma única,un(a) arma buena.
In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las,unas, etc.) are always used.