argent
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from Old French argent (“silver”), from Latin argentum (“white money, silver”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
argent (uncountable)
- The metal silver.
- (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
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argent colour:
- 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
- The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
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Translations [edit]
silver or metal tincture
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Adjective [edit]
argent
- of silver or silver-coloured.
- (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
- 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
- ...when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.
- 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
of silver or silver coloured
of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
- Ag (chemical symbol for silver)
See also [edit]
Quotations [edit]
- 1667, Those argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, Paradise Lost
- 1733, Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
- 1817, she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, Endymion
- 1817, Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine argent luxuries! — John Keats, Endymion
- 1818, Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair argent wings — John Keats, Hyperion
- 1819, At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes
- 1891,"A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- 1922, Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- 1922, Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- 1967, Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets
Anagrams [edit]
Catalan [edit]
| Chemical element | |
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| Ag | Previous: pal·ladi (Pd) |
| Next: cadmi (Cd) | |
Etymology [edit]
From Latin argentum.
Noun [edit]
argent m (uncountable)
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French, from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵn̥t-, n-stem form of *h₂erǵ- (“white”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
argent m (plural argents)
Related terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin argentum.
Noun [edit]
argent m (usually uncountable)
Derived terms [edit]
Middle French [edit]
Noun [edit]
argent m (plural argents or argentz)
Descendants [edit]
- French: argent
Old French [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin argentum.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ardʒẽnt/
Noun [edit]
argent m (oblique plural argens, nominative singular argens, nominative plural argent)
Descendants [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English borrowed terms
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Heraldic tincture
- English adjectives
- en:Colors
- en:Greys
- ca:Chemical elements
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan uncountable nouns
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Chemical elements
- Jèrriais terms derived from Latin
- Jèrriais nouns
- roa-jer:Flowers
- roa-jer:Metals
- Middle French nouns
- frm:Colors
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns