Armentum, armenti. A heard or droue of beastes.Armenta boum.Virg.A heard.Armenta immania.Virg. de monstris marinis. Armenta læta.Virg.Fatte and in good liking.Armenta muta.Stat.Armentum regale.Ouid.Mugitus armentorum.Ouid.Stabulis armenta tenere.Virg.Sortiri armenro sobolem.Virg.Armentis incurrunt vrsi.Ouid.Armenti dux.Ouid.The bull.Armenti custos.Ouid.Armentorum ministri.Ouid.Cowheardes.Armenta agere dicitur pastor.Ouid.Montana armenta.Ouid.That feede on hilles.Grex armentorum. Varro. Armenti reges vocantur Tauri, tanquam rectores.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
armentum, i, n. (old form armenta, ae, f., Liv. Andron. and Enn. ap. Non. p. 190, 20; Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 4 Müll.) [contr. for arimentum from aro, Varr. L. L. 5, 96 Müll.; cf. Isid. Orig. 12, 2]. I.Cattle for ploughing; and collectively, a herd (but jumentum, contr. for jugimentum from jugum, draught-cattle; cf. Dig. 50, 16, 89); most freq. in the plur.: cornifrontes armentae, Liv. Andron. l. c.; Enn. l. c.: At variae crescunt pecudes, armenta feraeque, Lucr. 5, 228; cf. id. 1, 163: grex armentorum, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 7: greges armentorum reliquique pecoris, Cic. Phil. 3, 12 fin.; so Vulg. Deut. 28, 4: ut accensis cornibus armenta concitentur, Liv. 22, 17: armenta bucera, Ov. M. 6, 395.—In the sing.: armentum aegrotat in agris, Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 6: pasci Armentum regale vides, Ov. M. 2, 842; 8, 882; 11, 348: armentum agens, Liv. 1, 7: ad armentum cucurrit, Vulg. Gen. 18, 7; ib. Exod. 29, 1; ib. Ezech. 43, 19 et saep.—II.Transf.A. Of horses or other large animals: bellum haec armenta minantur, Verg. A. 3, 540.— In sing.: sortiri armento subolem, Verg. G. 3, 71; Ov. F. 2, 277; Col. 7, 1, 2; Plin. 8, 42, 66, 165; 11, 49, 110, 263: hos (cervos) tota armenta sequuntur, Verg. A. 1, 185: armenta immania Neptuni,
the monstrous beasts of Neptune
, id. G. 4, 395.—B.A herd, drove, as a collective designation; with gen.: armenta boum, Verg. G. 2, 195; so Vulg. Deut. 8, 13; ib. Judith, 2, 8: multa ibi equorum boumque armenta, Plin. Ep. 2, 17: cynocephalorum, id. ib. 7, 2, 2.—C. For a single cow, ox, etc.: centum armenta, Hyg. Fab. 118.