argentum

Learned borrowing from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• IPA^(key): /ar.ˈɡɛn.tʊm/
• Rhymes: -tʊm, -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: ar‧gen‧tum

argentum (plural argentum-argentum, first-person possessive argentumku, second-person possessive argentummu, third-person possessive argentumnya)

1. silver

   Synonym: perak

• “argentum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• ☽tum (alchemy)

From Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈɡen.tum/, [ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈd͡ʒen.tum/, [ärˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪um]

argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension

1. (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.

2. (by extension) a silver thing

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• argentum pustulatum, pustulatum (refined silver)

• Argentina f

• argī̆lla f

• “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)
    
• “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

• ارݢينتوم

Borrowed from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, n-stem form of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-.

• IPA^(key): [a(r)ɡɛntom], [a(r)ɡɛntəm], [a(r)d͡ʒɛntəm]
• Rhymes: -tom, -om

argentum (Jawi spelling ارݢينتوم)

1. silver (metal)

• Usually used in scientific contexts compared to perak.

• perak / ڤيرق
• fidah / فضة