argentosus

Latin

FWOTD – 17 September 2016

Etymology

From argentum (“silver”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡenˈtoː.sus/, [ärɡɛn̪ˈt̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.d͡ʒenˈto.sus/, [ärd͡ʒen̪ˈt̪ɔːs̬us]

Adjective

argentōsus (feminine argentōsa, neuter argentōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. full of silver, silvery, silver-bearing
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.29:

     Ita feruminatur aurum, quod argentosum vocant.

     Thus the gold, which they call silvery, is soldered.

   • 1561, Xenophon, translated by Jean Ribit, De Vectigalibus:

     Quum autem sic olim effossa sit et egesta materia argenti, considerate nec aliquam partem eiecti acervi sponte nascentium glebarum et argentosarum, nec ipsum argentosum locum quicquam diminutum et contractum esse, sed magis ac magis protendi ac diletari videtur.

     Now in spite of the fact that the silver ore has been dug and carried out for so long a time, I would ask you to note that the mounds of rubbish so shoveled out are but a fractional portion of the series of hillocks containing veins full of silver, and as yet unquarried, nor is the silver-bearing region gradually becoming circumscribed, but rather it is evidently extending in wider area from year to year.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	argentōsus	argentōsa	argentōsum		argentōsī	argentōsae	argentōsa
Genitive	argentōsī	argentōsae	argentōsī		argentōsōrum	argentōsārum	argentōsōrum
Dative	argentōsō		argentōsō		argentōsīs
Accusative	argentōsum	argentōsam	argentōsum		argentōsōs	argentōsās	argentōsa
Ablative	argentōsō	argentōsā	argentōsō		argentōsīs
Vocative	argentōse	argentōsa	argentōsum		argentōsī	argentōsae	argentōsa

Related terms

• argentum

Descendants

• Catalan: argentós
• English: argentous
• Portuguese: argentoso
• Romanian: argintos
• Spanish: argentoso

References

• “argentosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• argentosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.