armilla

Borrowed from Latin armilla. Doublet of armill.

• Rhymes: -ɪlə

armilla (plural armillas or armillae)

1. (Ancient Rome) An armband awarded as a military decoration in Ancient Rome.
2. (zoology) A ring of hair or feathers on the legs.
3. (astronomy) Alternative form of armill.
4. (mycology) The frill of the stipe of agarics left attached on the expansion of the pileus, initially forming a covering of the hymenium.

• Mallari, Marilla

Borrowed from Spanish almilla, diminutive of alma (“soul”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ərˈmi.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈmi.ʎa]

armilla f (plural armilles)

1. waistcoat, vest

   armilla antibales ― bulletproof vest

   armilla salvavides ― life jacket

• “armilla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “armilla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “armilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

armilla

1. adessive singular of armi

• Marilla

From Latin armilla.

• IPA^(key): /arˈmil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: ar‧mìl‧la

armilla f (plural armille)

1. (Ancient Rome) armilla (armband awarded as a military decoration in Ancient Rome)
2. (astronomy) armil

   Synonym: sfera armillare

3. (architecture, heraldry) annulet
4. (obsolete) dog collar

• armilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• allarmi

From Latin armus or arma.

armilla f (genitive armillae); first declension

1. bracelet, armlet
2. metal hoop, ring or ferrule

First-declension noun.

• armillātus

• Catalan: armil·la
• English: armilla, armill
• Portuguese: armela, armila
• Spanish: armella, armilla, armila

• “armilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “armilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "armilla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• armilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “armilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “armilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From arma +‎ -illa or from Latin armilla.

• Syllabification: ar‧mi‧lla

armilla f (plural armillas)

1. diminutive of arma
2. (astronomy) armill, armillary sphere (ancient astronomical instrument)

   Synonym: esfera armilar

3. (obsolete) bracelet

   Synonym: brazalete

• “armilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024