argentum

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /arˈɡen.tum/, [arˈɡɛn.tũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈd͡ʒen.tum/

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

Second declension.

• 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
  • Catalan: argent
  • Occitan: argent
• Old 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: argent (early borrowing)
  • Middle French: argent
    • French: argent
      • Haitian Creole: ajan
  • Norman: argent, ergent, ardjã
  • Walloon: ardjint
  • → Middle English: argent
    • English: argent
• → Portuguese: argento
• → Spanish: argento

• argilla

• 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, 1883–1887)
• argentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

• ارݢينتوم‎

From Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵn̥t-, n-stem form of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-.

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

argentum (Jawi spelling ارݢينتوم)

1. silver (metal)

• Usually used in scientific contexts compared to perak.

• perak / ڤيرق‎
• fidah / فضة‎