argentine

Borrowed from Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).dʒənˌtiːn/, /ˈɑː(ɹ).dʒənˌtaɪn/

argentine (comparative more argentine, superlative most argentine)

1. Containing or resembling silver.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare

     Celestial Dian, goddess argentine.

argentine (plural argentines)

1. Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially the European argentine, Argentina sphyraena.
2. (mineralogy) A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
3. white metal coated with silver
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

• herring smelt

• greater argentine

• Tangerine, antigreen, intragene, tangerine

argentine

1. feminine singular of argentin

• Argentine, Argentinean, Argentina, Argentinian

• gainèrent
• régnaient

argentine

1. feminine plural of argentino

argentine f

1. plural of argentina

• rinnegate

argentine

1. vocative masculine singular of argentinus