argent

Meaning

  1. silver
  2. money, cash
  3. argent (white in heraldry)

Synonyms

médaille d’argent

Ag

argent comptant

argent liquide

mémoire cache

monnaie métallique

pièce d’argent

peinture d’argent

pépètes

grès grossier à grains anguleux

gravaille

rochaille

cenne|cennes

sable gros

piastre|piastres

grès à gros grains

bidou|bidous

sable|sables

ga

ag

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
ar‧gent
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aʁ.ʒɑ̃/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle French argent, from Old French argent, from Latin argentum (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

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