argentum
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin argentum (“silver”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
argentum (plural argentum-argentum, first-person possessive argentumku, second-person possessive argentummu, third-person possessive argentumnya)
Further reading edit
- “argentum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /arˈɡen.tum/, [ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /arˈd͡ʒen.tum/, [ärˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪um]
Noun edit
argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension
- (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.
- Argentum et aurum propitiine an irati di negaverint dubito.
- Tacitus Germania, chapter 5 (translation M. Hutton).
- (by extension) a silver thing
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | argentum | argenta |
Genitive | argentī | argentōrum |
Dative | argentō | argentīs |
Accusative | argentum | argenta |
Ablative | argentō | argentīs |
Vocative | argentum | argenta |
Hyponyms edit
- argentum pustulatum, pustulatum (refined silver)
Derived terms edit
- argentāria (“bank-counter”)
- argentārium
- argentārius (“banker”)
- argentātus
- argenteus
- argentīfodīna
- Argentīnus
- argentōsus
- argentum vīvum (“quicksilver, mercury”)
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: argent (see there for further descendants)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
See also edit
References edit
- “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)
- coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum
- “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 edit
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, n-stem form of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
argentum (Jawi spelling ارݢينتوم)
- silver (metal)
Usage notes edit
- Usually used in scientific contexts compared to perak.