argento
Meaning
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silver
Concepts
Synonyms
Hyphenated as
ar‧gen‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aɾˈxento/
Etymology
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.
New
argentar
to silver-plate
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