English
Etymology
Italian all'arme! (to arms!, to the weapons!) > Latin arma, armorum, weapons.
Noun
en-noun
- a danger signal or warning
- a call to arms
Quotations
; call to arms
1969 : It seems to me that by the same process they are also made less "real" - distinguished, in part, by the physical size of the television screen, which, for all the industry's advances, still shows one a picture of men three inches tall shooting at other men three inches tall, and trivialized, or at least tamed, by the enveloping cozy alarums of the household. - Michael Arlen, Living Room War
Derived terms
alarums and excursions
See also
alarm
Latin
Noun
�l�rum f
- inflection of|ala#Latin|�la|gen|p
Category:Latin noun forms
pt:alarum
ru:alarum
te:alarum
vi:alarum
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