argento

Meaning

Noun

silver

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of argentar

argentar

to silver-plate

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Concepts

silver

Synonyms

plata

Translations

فضة

argent

plata

Silber

άργυρος

argent

argento

argentum

zilver

prata

gümüş

Hyphenated as

ar‧gen‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aɾˈxento/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: argentum

Cognate with Italian: ariento

In summary

Borrowed from Latin argentum, from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”). Old Spanish and Old Portuguese had inherited descendants of the word in arento, possibly from a Vulgar Latin variant *arentum, perhaps influenced by Celtic; cf. also obsolete Italian ariento, which may have come from an Oscan-influenced form. See also Spanish arienzo, inherited from a related root.