The story
- Latin · derived fromarma“arms, weapons”
- Middle French · derived fromalarme
- Middle English · inherited fromalarme
- English todayalarm
From Middle English alarme, alarom, borrowed from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”).
Words from the same roots
Latinarma all →
armisticearmatole
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.