argent

• arg., a. (heraldry)

From Middle English argent, from Old French argent (“silver”), from Latin argentum (“white money, silver”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdʒənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹdʒənt/
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒənt

argent (countable and uncountable, plural argents)

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

   argent colour:  

   • 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry

     The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

3. (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
   • Tennyson

     The polished argent of her breast.

argent (not comparable)

1. of silver or silver-coloured.
2. (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.

• blanc, silver

• Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

• Appendix:Colors

• 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

• Gretna, Tanger, garnet, gerant

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əɾˈʒent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ərˈʒen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aɾˈd͡ʒent/
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver
2. (heraldry) argent

• plata

From Middle French argent, from Old French argent, from Latin argentum (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃/

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• (Paris) IPA^(key): /æʁʒõ/[1]
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

argent m (plural argents)

1. silver
2. money
3. (heraldry) argent (white in heraldry)

• Haitian Creole: ajan

• “argent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ganter
• garent
• gérant
• grenat
• ragent
• régnât
• Tanger

From Old French argent.

argent m (plural argens or argentz)

1. silver (metal)
2. silver (color)

• French: argent
  • Haitian Creole: ajan

• ergent (continental Normandy)
• ardjã (Sark)

From Old French argent, from Latin argentum (possibly a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver
2. (Jersey) snow-in-summer

• argent comptant (“cash”)
• argentchi (“silversmith”)
• vif-argent (“mercury, quicksilver”)

• arjant

From Latin argentum, according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, an early borrowing[1].

• IPA^(key): /arˈdʒẽnt/

argent m (oblique plural argenz or argentz, nominative singular argenz or argentz, nominative plural argent)

1. silver (metal)
2. silver (color)

• Middle French: argent
  • French: argent
    • Haitian Creole: ajan
• Norman: argent, ergent, ardjã
• Walloon: ardjint
• → Middle English: argent
  • English: argent

• argen

From Latin argentum.

argent m (oblique plural argents, nominative singular argents, nominative plural argent)

1. silver

• Catalan: argent
• Occitan: argent

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “argentum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 250, page 192