Argentina

See also: argentina, Argentína, and Argentīna

Translingual

Etymology

Latin, feminine singular of argentinus (“silvery”)

Proper noun

Argentina f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family  – herring smelts.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – silverweeds and, possibly, some typical cinquefoils.

Usage notes

• The plant genus Argentina is in flux. It is likely an immediate sister to Potentilla, in which it had been included.

Hypernyms

• (genus, fish): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Protacanthopterygii - superorder; Argentiniformes - order; Argentinoidei - suborder; Argentinidae - family
• (genus, plant): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Rosales – order; Rosaceae - family; Rosoideae - subfamily; Potentilleae - tribe;  - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus of fish):  - type species; for other species see Argentina (Argentinidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• (genus of plant):  - type species; for other species see Argentina (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Argentina (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argentina (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argentina (Argentinidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Potentilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Argentina (fish) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Argentina (Rosaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Argentina at USDA Plants database

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English

Etymology

From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus; in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.d͡ʒənˈtiː.nə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹ.d͡ʒənˈti.nə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːnə

Proper noun

Argentina

2. A country in South America, called officially The Argentine Republic.

Synonyms

• Argentine Confederation
• Argentine Nation
• Argentine Republic
• United Provinces of the River Plate

Coordinate terms

• (country in South America): (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Related terms

• Argentine
• Argentinian
• Argentinean

Translations

Argentine Republic

• Adyghe: Аргентинэ (Arɣentinɛ)
• Afrikaans: Argentinië
• Albanian: Argjentinë f (indefinite), Argjentina (sq) f
• Amharic: አርጀንቲና (ʾärǧäntina)
• Arabic: اَلْأَرْجَنْتِين m (al-ʔarjantīn)
• Aragonese: Archentina
• Armenian: Արգենտինա (hy) (Argentina), Արժանթին (Aržantʻin) (Western Armenian)
• Asturian: Arxentina (ast)
• Aymara: Arxintina
• Azerbaijani: Argentina (az)
• Basque: Argentina (eu)
• Belarusian: Аргенці́на f (Arhjencína), Аргенты́на f (Arhjentýna) (Taraškevica orthography)
• Bengali: আর্জেন্টিনা (arjenṭina)
• Breton: Arc'hantina (br)
• Bulgarian: Аржентина f (Aržentina)
• Burmese: အာဂျင်တီးနား (agyangti:na:)
• Catalan: Argentina (ca) f
• Cebuano: Argentina
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿根廷 (aa³ gan¹ ting⁴)

  Mandarin: 阿根廷 (zh) (Āgēntíng)

• Chuvash: Аргентина (Argent̬ina)
• Cornish: Arghantina
• Czech: Argentina (cs) f
• Danish: Argentina (da)
• Dhivehi: އާޖެންޓީ (ājen̊ṭī)
• Dutch: Argentinië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Argentino (eo)
• Estonian: Argentina (et), Argentiina (et)
• Finnish: Argentiina (fi)
• French: Argentine (fr) f
• Friulian: Argjentine
• Galician: Arxentina (gl)
• Georgian: არგენტინა (ka) (argenṭina)
• German: Argentinien (de) n
• Greek: Αργεντινή (el) f (Argentiní)
• Guaraní: Argentina
• Gujarati: આર્જંટિના (ārjaṇṭinā)
• Haitian Creole: Ajantin
• Hawaiian: ʻAlekina
• Hebrew: אַרְגֶּנְטִינָה (he) (argentina)
• Hindi: अर्जेन्टीना (hi) f (arjenṭīnā)
• Hungarian: Argentína (hu)
• Hunsrik: Arschentina n
• Icelandic: Argentína (is)
• Ido: Arjentinia (io)
• Ilocano: Argentina
• Indonesian: Argentina (id)
• Interlingua: Argentina
• Irish: An Airgintín f
• Italian: Argentina (it)
• Japanese: アルゼンチン (ja) (Aruzenchin) (亜爾然丁 (ja) (Aruzenchin))
• Javanese: Argentina
• Kannada: ಅರ್ಜೆಂಟೀನ (kn) (arjeṇṭīna)
• Kapampangan: Argentina
• Kazakh: Аргентина (Argentina)
• Khmer: អាហ្សង់ទីន (km) (ʼaazɑngtiin)
• Korean: 아르헨티나 (Areuhentina)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: Аргентина (Argentina)
• Ladino: Arjentina
• Lao: ອາກຊັງຕີນ (ʼāk sang tīn)
• Latin: Argentina (la)
• Latvian: Argentīna f
• Lithuanian: Argentina (lt) f
• Low German: Argentinien (nds)
• Lower Sorbian: Argentinska
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• Luxembourgish: Argentinien (lb)
• Macedonian: Аргентина (mk) f (Argentina)
• Malay: Argentina
• Malayalam: അർജന്റീന (aṟjanṟīna)
• Maltese: L-Arġentina
• Maori: Āketina
• Mapudungun: Arkentina
• Marathi: अर्जेन्टीना (arjenṭīnā)
• Min Nan: Argentina (zh-min-nan)
• Mongolian: Аргентин (Argentin)
• Nahuatl: Arxentina
• Nauruan: Argentina (na)
• Navajo: Béésh Łigaii Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Argentina
• Northern Sami: Argentina
• Norwegian: Argentina (no)

  Nynorsk: Argentina (nn)

• Novial:
• Occitan: Argentina (oc) f
• Pashto: ارجنټاين
• Persian: آرژانتین (fa) (âržântin)
• Piedmontese: Argentin-a
• Polish: Argentyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: Argentina (pt) f
• Quechua: Arxintina
• Romanian: Argentina (ro) f
• Romansch: Argentinia
• Russian: Аргенти́на (ru) f (Argentína)
• Samogitian: Argentėna
• Sanskrit: अर्जन्टीना (arjanṭīnā)
• Scots: Argentinae
• Scottish Gaelic: Argentina
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Аргенти́на f

  Latin: Argentína (sh) f

• Sicilian: Argintina f
• Sinhalese: ආර්‍ජන්‍ටිනාව (ārjanṭināwa)
• Slovak: Argentína (sk) f
• Slovene: Argentina (sl) f
• Spanish: Argentina (es)
• Swahili: Argentina (sw), Ajentina (sw)
• Swedish: Argentina (sv) n
• Tagalog: Arhentina (tl)
• Tajik: Аргентина (tg) (Argentina), Оржонтин (Oržontin)
• Tamil: அர்ஜென்டினா (arjeṉṭiṉā)
• Telugu: అర్జెంటీనా (te) (arjeṇṭīnā)
• Tetum: Arjentina
• Thai: อาร์เจนตินา (th) (aa-jeen-dtì-nâa)
• Tibetan: ཨར་གེན་ཐིན (ar gen thin)
• Turkish: Arjantin (tr)
• Turkmen: Argentina
• Ukrainian: Аргенти́на (uk) f (Arhentýna)
• Upper Sorbian: Argentinska
• Urdu: ارجنٹائن (arjenṭā'in), ارجینٹینا (arjenṭīnā)
• Uyghur: ئارگېنتىنا (argëntina)
• Uzbek: Argentina (uz)
• Venetian: Argentina
• Vietnamese: Ác-hen-ti-na
• Volapük: Largäntän (vo)
• Võro: Argentina
• Welsh: Yr Ariannin f, Gweriniaeth yr Ariannin (cy)
• Wolof: Arsantin
• Yiddish: אַרגענטינע (argentine)
• Yoruba: Argentina

Anagrams

• argentian, tanagrine

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ər.ʒənˈti.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾ.d͡ʒenˈti.na]

Proper noun

Argentina f

1. Argentina

Derived terms

• argentí

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarɡɛntɪna]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Argentina f

1. Argentina

Related terms

• argentinský
• Argentinec

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

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Estonian

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

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Italian

Proper noun

Argentina f

1. Argentina

Related terms

• argentino
• argento

Anagrams

• arginante
• inargenta
• ingranate
• rinnegata

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡenˈtiː.na/, [ärɡɛn̪ˈt̪iːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.d͡ʒenˈti.na/, [ärd͡ʒen̪ˈt̪iːnä]

Proper noun

Argentīna f sg (genitive Argentīnae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Argentina

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Argentīna
Genitive	Argentīnae
Dative	Argentīnae
Accusative	Argentīnam
Ablative	Argentīnā
Vocative	Argentīna

Related terms

• argentīnus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑɾɡəntɪːnɑ/

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

Related terms

• argentiner
• argentinsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

Related terms

• argentinar
• argentinsk

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Occitan

Proper noun

Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Related terms

• argentin
• Argentin

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Related terms

• argetino

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, in reference to the Río de la Plata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑr.dʒenˈti.na/

Proper noun

Argentina f (genitive and dative Argentinei)

1. Argentina

Related terms

• argentinian
• argentiniană

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Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arɡentǐːna/
• Hyphenation: Ar‧gen‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Argentína f (Cyrillic spelling Аргенти́на)

1. (uncountable) Argentina

Declension

Declension of Argentina

	singular
nominative	Argentina
genitive	Argentine
dative	Argentini
accusative	Argentinu
vocative	Argentino
locative	Argentini
instrumental	Argentinom

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river"), since first European explorers, looking for gold, silver, watching it from the sea, it looked shining like silver because of the sunlight reflex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾxenˈtina/ [aɾ.xẽn̪ˈt̪i.na]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ina

Proper noun

Argentina f

1. Argentina

Usage notes

The definite article is optional when one refers to Argentina in Spanish (i.e. la Argentina).

Related terms

• argentino, argentina

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Swahili

Alternative forms

• Ajentina

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

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Swedish

Proper noun

Argentina n (genitive Argentinas)

1. Argentina

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Turkmen

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina

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Uzbek

Proper noun

Argentina

1. Argentina