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noun
A Greek armed mercenary who enforced Ottoman rule in Greece from the 15th century onward; during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), many armatoloi became pro-independence guerrilla fighters opposed to Ottoman rule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of armatole.
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Usage: alt-of
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History
Borrowed from Greek αρματολός (armatolós), alternative form of αρματόλογος (armatólogos, “a person concerned or involved with arms or weapons”), from άρματα (ármata) (plural of άρμα (árma, “weapon”), from Byzantine Greek ἄρμα (árma), from Latin arma (“armour, defensive arms, shields, weapons of war”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2(e)rmos (“fitting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2er- (“to join”)) + λόγος (lógos, “subject matter”) (from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos), from λέγω (légō, “to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-). The plural form armatoloi and possibly armatoli are from the Greek plural form αρματολοί (armatoloí).
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