a female armorbearer

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armĭger (ARMIGERVS in a late inscr., Orell. 3631), gĕra, gĕrum, adj. [arma-gero], bearing weapons, armed, warlike (in this last sense rare, instead of armifer).

Pennigero non armigero in corpore, Att. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 33:

cum paucis armigeris,

Curt. 3, 12:

Phoebumque, armigerum deum (i. e. Martem),

Sil. 7, 87:

Colchis armigeră proelia sevit humo,

Prop. 4, 10, 10:

sulcus,

Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 324, i. q. armiferum arvum (v. armifer fin.).—

Subst., an armor-bearer, shield-bearer, a female armorbearer (this is the prevailing signif. of the word).

Masc.:

armiger,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 11; id. Cas. prol. 55:

Sergius armiger Catilinae,

i.e. an adherent, Cic. Dom. 5:

regisque Thoactes Armiger,

Ov. M. 5, 148; so id. ib. 12, 363:

hic (Butes) Dardanio Anchisae Armiger ante fuit,

Verg. A. 9, 648:

vocavit armigerum suum,

Vulg. Jud. 9, 54; ib. 1 Reg. 14, 1; ib. 1 Par. 10, 4 et saep.:

armiger Jovis, i. e. aquila,

Ov. M. 15, 386; Verg. A. 9, 564 (cf. Hor. C. 4, 4, 1: minister fulminis ales): armiger hac magni patet Hectoris, i. e. the promontory of Misenus, named after Misenus, the armor-bearer of Hector, Stat. S. 2, 77.—

Fem.:

armigera, of the armor-bearer of Diana,

Ov. M. 3, 166; 5, 619.