argentum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /arˈɡen.tum/, [ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /arˈd͡ʒen.tum/, [ärˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension
- silver (metal, element)
- Tacitus Germania, chapter 5 (translation M. Hutton).
- Argentum et aurum propitiine an irati di negaverint dubito.
- The gods have denied them gold and silver, whether in mercy or wrath I find it hard to say.
- Argentum et aurum propitiine an irati di negaverint dubito.
- Tacitus Germania, chapter 5 (translation M. Hutton).
- (by extension) a silver thing
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | argentum | argenta |
Genitive | argentī | argentōrum |
Dative | argentō | argentīs |
Accusative | argentum | argenta |
Ablative | argentō | argentīs |
Vocative | argentum | argenta |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Corsican: argentu
- Gallurese: algentu
- Dalmatian: arziant
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: argento, ariento (obsolete)
- Ligurian: argénto
- Lombard: arzent
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: archent
- Old Occitan: argent
- Old Galician-Portuguese: arento
- Old Spanish: arento
- Piedmontese: argent
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: arghentu
- Sicilian: argentu
- Venetian: arxento
- → Albanian: argjend
- → Galician: arxento
- → Malay: argentum
- → Old French: (early borrowing) argent, arjant
- → Portuguese: argento
- → Spanish: argento
See also
References
- “argentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “argentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- argentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- argentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum
- silver plate: argentum (factum) (Verr. 5. 25. 63)
- coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum
- “argentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “argentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Malay
Chemical element | |
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Ag | |
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin argentum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵn̥t-, n-stem form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
argentum (Jawi spelling ارݢينتوم)
- silver (metal)
Usage notes
- Usually used in scientific contexts compared to perak.
Synonyms
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