armateur

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French armateur, probably from an unattested sense of Medieval Latin armātōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ma.tœʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

armateur m (plural armateurs, feminine armatrice)

1. (nautical) shipowner

Further reading

• “armateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.