argentate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin argentatus (“silvery”).

Adjective

argentate (comparative more argentate, superlative most argentate)

1. (botany, dated, rare) silvery white

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “argentate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Verb

1. To treat with a silver salt

Derived terms

• argentation

Anagrams

• gnateater

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Italian

Verb

argentate

1. second-person plural present indicative of argentare
2. second-person plural imperative of argentare

Adjective

argentate

1. feminine plural of argentato

Anagrams

• antergate, regatante

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) argentāte

1. vocative masculine singular of argentātus