weaponry

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *wēpną

Proto-West Germanic *wāpn

Old English wēpn

Middle English wepen

English weapon

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Old French -ier

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

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Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)influ.

Latin -iabor.

Old French -ie

Old French -eriebor.

Middle English -erieaph.

Middle English -re, -ri, -rie, -ry, -rye

English -ry

English weaponry

From weapon + -ry.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛp.ən.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

weaponry (usually uncountable, plural weaponries)

1. Weapons collectively

   The army has a wide array of weaponry.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

   • 2014 July 27, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     Holy shit! Those things barely look powerful enough to run Oregon Trail, much less Earth-ending weaponry. People who work there must watch WarGames and go “One day, one day, we’ll get to play with that stuff.”

Derived terms

• bioweaponry
• cyberweaponry
• superweaponry

Related terms

• conventional weaponry

Translations

weapons collectively

• Arabic: سِلَاح m (silāḥ)
• Belarusian: узбрае́нне n (uzbrajénnje), збро́я f (zbrója)
• Bulgarian: въоръжение (bg) n (văorăženie), оръ́жие (bg) n (orắžie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兵器 (zh) (bīngqì), 武器 (zh) (wǔqì)

• Czech: zbraň (cs) f, výzbroj (cs) f
• Egyptian: (ḫꜥw)
• Esperanto: armilaro
• Finnish: aseistus (fi)
• French: armement (fr) m, arsenal (fr) m
• Galician: armamento (gl) m
• German: Waffen (de) f pl, Bewaffnung (de) f
• Greek: οπλισμός (el) m (oplismós)
• Hebrew: נֶשֶׁק (he) m (nésheq), כְּלֵי נֶשֶׁק (he) m pl (kli nésheq)
• Hungarian: fegyverzet (hu)
• Irish: airm m pl
• Italian: armi (it) f pl
• Japanese: 武器 (ja) (ぶき, buki), 兵器 (ja) (へいき, heiki)
• Khmer: សព្វាវុធ (sɑppiəvut), អាវុធ (km) (ʼaavut)
• Korean: 무기(武器) (ko) (mugi), 병기(兵器) (ko) (byeonggi)
• Lao: ອາວຸດ (lo) (ʼā wut)
• Latin: arma (la) n pl
• Macedonian: о́ружје n (óružje), вооружу́вање n (vooružúvanje)
• Navajo: tʼáadoo leʼé bee anadahatʼíinii
• Persian: سلاح (fa) (selâh)
• Polish: uzbrojenie (pl) n, broń (pl) f
• Portuguese: armas (pt) pl, armamento (pt)
• Russian: вооруже́ние (ru) n (vooružénije), ору́жие (ru) n (orúžije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀рӯжје n

  Latin: òrūžje (sh) n

• Slovak: zbraň (sk) f, výzbroj f, zbrane pl
• Slovene: orožje n
• Spanish: armas (es) f pl
• Tajik: силоҳ (tg) (siloh)
• Thai: อาวุธ (th) (aa-wút)
• Ukrainian: озбро́єння (uk) n (ozbrójennja), збро́я (uk) f (zbrója)
• Vietnamese: vũ khí (vi) (武器), binh khí (vi) (兵器)
• Yiddish: געווער n (gever)