argentum

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin argentum (“silver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar.ˈɡɛn.tʊm/
• Rhymes: -tʊm, -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: ar‧gen‧tum

Noun

argentum (plural argentum-argentum)

1. silver

   Synonym: perak

Further reading

• “argentum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Chemical element
Ag
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Next: cadmium (Cd)

Alternative forms

• ☽tum (alchemy)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension

1. (uncountable) 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).

	singular	plural
nominative	argentum	argenta
genitive	argentī	argentōrum
dative	argentō	argentīs
accusative	argentum	argenta
ablative	argentō	argentīs
vocative	argentum	argenta

Hyponyms

• argentum pustulatum, pustulatum (refined silver)

Derived terms

• argentāria f (“bank-counter”)
• argentārium n
• argentārius m (“banker”)
• argentātus
• argenteus
• argentīfodīna f
• Argentīnus m
• argentīnus
• argentōsus
• argentum vīvum n (“quicksilver, mercury”)

Related terms

• Argentina f

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: arghentu (Logudorese), argentu (Campidanese)
• Balkan Romance:
  • Megleno-Romanian: arzint, arzintu, răzint
  • Romanian: argint
  • → Albanian: argjend (see there for further descendants)
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: argentu

    Gallurese: algentu

  • Dalmatian: arziant
  • Italian: argento, ariento (obsolete)
  • Sicilian: argentu, arjentu (dated)
  • Venetan: arxento
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: arint
  • Romansch: argient, argien (Sursilvan)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: argénto
  • Lombard: arsgent, arzent
  • Piedmontese: argent
  • Romagnol: arẓént
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: argent
  • Old French: argent (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: argent, argen
    • Occitan: argent
    • → Old Spanish: argent
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: archent
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arento
  • Old Spanish: ariento
• Borrowings:
  • → Galician: arxento
  • → Malay: argentum
  • → Portuguese: argento
  • → Spanish: argento

See also

• argī̆lla f

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

Malay

Chemical element
Ag
Previous: paladium (Pd)
Next: kadmium (Cd)

Alternative forms

• ارݢينتوم

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, n-stem form of 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