Armenia, The name of two regions, maior, and minor. Arménia maior, hath on the North, Colchis, Iberia, & Albania: on the West, part of Cappadocia: on the East, part of the Hitcane sea: on the South, Mesopotamia, and the mountayne Taurus. Armenia minor, hath on the North and West part Cappadocia: on the East the noble ryuer Euphrates, and Armenia maior: on the South part, the mountayne Taurus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Armĕnĭa, ae, f., = *)armeni/a. I.A country of Asia, divided into Armenia Major (eastern, now Turcomania and Kurdistan) and Minor (western, now Anatolia), Plin. 6, 9, 9, 25: utraque, Luc. 2, 638: utraeque, Flor. 3, 5, 21.—Absol. Armenia, for Armenia Minor, Cic. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Phil. 2, 37, 94.— Hence, II. Derivv. A. Armĕnĭăcus, a, um, adj., = *)armeniako/s, Armenian: bellum, Plin. 7, 39, 40, 129: triumphus, id. 30, 2, 6, 16: cotes, id. 36, 22, 47, 164.— Hence, Armeniacus,
an epithet of the emperor Marcus Aurelius
,
on account of his conquest of Armenia
, Capitol. M. Anton. Philos. 9; Inscr. Grut. 253, 2.—Armeniacum malum, or absol. Armĕnĭăcum, the fruit of the apricot-tree, the apricot, Col. 5, 10, 19 (id. 5, 10, 404, called Armenium).—Armĕ-nĭăca, ae, f., the apricot-tree, Col. 11, 2, 96; Plin. 15, 13, 12, 41.—B. Armĕnĭus, a, um, adj., Armenian: lingua, Varr. L. L. 5, 100 Müll.: reges, Cic. Att. 2, 7: tigres, Verg. E. 5, 29: pedites, Nep. Dat. 8, 2: triumphi, Flor. 4, 2, 8.—2.Subst.a. Ar-mĕnĭus, ii, m., an Armenian, Ov. Tr. 2, 227; Mart. 5, 59; Vulg. 4 Reg. 19, 37.—b. Armĕnĭum, ii, n.(a). Sc. pigmentum, a fine blue color, obtained from an Armenian stone, ultramarine, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 4; Vitr. 7, 5 fin.; Plin. 35, 6, 12, 30.—(b). Sc. pomum, the apricot, Col. 5, 10, 404.