argentum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /arˈɡen.tum/, [ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈd͡ʒen.tum/, [ärˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension

1. 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.

2. (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

• argentāria
• argentārium
• argentārius
• argentātus
• argenteus

• argentīfodīna
• Argentīnus
• argentōsus
• argentum vīvum

Descendants

• Corsican: argentu

  Gallurese: algentu

• Dalmatian: arziant
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: arzintu
  • Romanian: argint
• Italian: argento, ariento
• Ligurian: argénto
• Lombard: arzent
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: archent
• Old Occitan: argent
  • Occitan: argent
  • → Old Spanish: argent
• Old Galician-Portuguese: arento
• Old Spanish: arento
• Piedmontese: argent
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: arint
  • Romansch: argient, argien
• Sardinian: arghentu
• Sicilian: argentu
• Venetian: arxento
• → Albanian: argjend
• → Galician: arxento
• → Malay: argentum
• → Old French: (early borrowing) argent, arjant
  • Middle French: argent
    • French: argent
      • Haitian Creole: ajan
      • Louisiana Creole: larjên
  • Norman: argent, ergent, ardjã
  • Walloon: ardjint
  • → Middle English: argent
    • English: argent
• → Portuguese: argento
• → Spanish: argento

See also

• argilla

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)
    
• “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

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Malay

Chemical element
Ag
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Alternative forms

• ارݢينتوم

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

• IPA^(key): [a(r)ɡɛntom], [a(r)ɡɛntəm], [a(r)d͡ʒɛntəm]
• Rhymes: -tom, -om

Noun

argentum (Jawi spelling ارݢينتوم)

1. silver (metal)

Usage notes

• Usually used in scientific contexts compared to perak.

Synonyms

• perak / ڤيرق
• fidah / فضة