армија

Borrowed from French armée, from Middle French armee, borrowed through Anglo-Norman from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈarmi(j)a]

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армија • (armija) f

1. army, military

Borrowed from Old French armee, borrowed through Anglo-Norman from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”).

• IPA^(key): /ǎrmija/
• Hyphenation: a‧rmi‧ja
• Rhymes: -ija

а̀рмија f (Latin spelling àrmija)

1. (military) army, military

   Synonym: во́јска

2. (figuratively) multitude, a large number of people

   Армија школараца је марширала улицом. ― An army of students was marching down the street.

• “армија”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025