argent

See also: Argent

English

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argent

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Alternative forms

• arg., a. (heraldry)

Etymology

From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdʒənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒənt

Noun

argent (countable and uncountable, plural argents)

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

   argent:  

   • 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:

     The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

3. (archaic or poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     The polish'd argent of her breast.

4. A moth of the genus Argyresthia.

Translations

silver or metal tincture

Afrikaans: silwer (af) Albanian: argjent Arabic: فِضَّة f (fiḍḍa) Armenian: արծաթ (hy) (arcatʻ) Basque: zilarra Belarusian: серабро (be) n (sjerabró) Breton: arc'hant (br) m Bulgarian: сребро (bg) n (srebro) Catalan: plata (ca) f, argent (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 銀 / 银 (zh) (yín) Cornish: arhans Czech: stříbro (cs) Danish: sølv (da) Dutch: zilver (nl) n Esperanto: arĝento (eo) Estonian: hõbe (et) Faroese: silvur Finnish: hopea (fi) French: argent (fr) m Friulian: arint Galician: prata (gl) Georgian: ვერცხლი (ka) (vercxli) German: Silber (de) n Greek: ασημί (el) n (asimí), ασημένιο n (asiménio), αργυρό (el) n (argyró) Guaraní: itatĩ Hebrew: כֶּסֶף (he) (késef) Hindi: चांदी (hi) f (cāndī) Hungarian: ezüst (hu) Icelandic: silfur (is) Indonesian: perak (id) Interlingua: argento Irish: airgead (ga) Italian: argento (it) m Japanese: 銀 (ja) (gin) Kazakh: күміс (kk) (kümıs) Latin: argentum (la) Latvian: sudrabs (lv) Lithuanian: sidabras (lt) Luxembourgish: sëlwer Macedonian: сребро (mk) n (srebro) Malay: argentum, perak (ms) Maltese: fidda Manx: argid m Mongolian: мөнгө (mn) (möngö) Norwegian: sølv (no) Occitan: argent (oc) m Old Occitan: argent m Polish: srebro (pl) n Portuguese: prata (pt) f Romanian: argint (ro) n Russian: серебро́ (ru) n (serebró), арге́нтум m (argéntum) Scottish Gaelic: airgead Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сребро n Roman: srebro (sh) n Slovak: striebro (sk) n Slovene: srebro (sl) Spanish: plata (es) f Swedish: silver (sv) n Tagalog: pilak Tajik: нуқра (tg) (nuqra) Thai: เงิน (th) (ngən) Tupinambá: itatinga Turkish: gümüş (tr) Ukrainian: срібло (uk) n (sriblo) Urdu: چاندی f (cāndī) Uzbek: kumush (uz), кумуш (kumush) Vietnamese: bạc (vi) Welsh: arian (cy) West Frisian: sulver (fy) Zazaki: noqre

Adjective

argent (not comparable)

1. Of silver or silver-coloured.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 49–50:

     Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?

2. (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

     ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.

   • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:

     The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […] .

Synonyms

• blanc, silver

Translations

of silver or silver coloured

Esperanto: arĝenta Finnish: hopeinen (fi) Greek: ασημής (el) (asimís), ασημένιος (el) (asiménios), αργυρός (el) (argyrós) (formally) Macedonian: сребрен (srebren) Malay: perak (ms), argentum Portuguese: prata (pt), prateado (pt), argento (pt), argênteo (pt) Romanian: argintiu (ro) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сребрна f, сребрнаста f Roman: srebrna f, srebrnasta f Spanish: argénteo (es)

of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms

Czech: stříbrný (cs) Dutch: zilver (nl) Finnish: hopeinen (fi), hopeanvärinen (fi) French: argent (fr) German: silbern (de) Hungarian: ezüst (hu) Italian: argento (it) Latin: argentius, argenteus (la) Macedonian: сребрен (srebren) Polish: srebrny (pl) Portuguese: branco (pt), prata (pt) Romanian: argintiu (ro) Russian: серебри́стый (ru) (serebrístyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сребрна f Roman: srebrna f Slovak: strieborná Spanish: plata (es) (blanco (es)) Swedish: silver (sv) Welsh: gwynn (cy)

Derived terms

• argentic
• argentiferous
• argentine
• argentite
• argentous
• argentum nitricum

Related terms

• Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Quotations

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• 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

  Those argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde

• 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

  she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy

• 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

  Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine argent luxuries!

• 1818, Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair argent wings — John Keats, Hyperion
• 1819, At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes
• 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

  "A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly.

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

  Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country.

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

  Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed.

• 1967, Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets

Anagrams

• Tanger, Garnet, garnet, Granet, Gretna, gerant, Gernat

Catalan

Chemical element
Ag
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Etymology

Inherited from Latin argentum n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ərˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ərˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈd͡ʒent]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

Noun

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver

   Synonym: plata

2. (heraldry) argent
3. (figurative) money, cash

   Synonyms: calé, diner

Derived terms

• argentar
• argenter
• argentí
• argèntic
• argentós

Further reading

• “argent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “argent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “argent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “argent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin argentum n.

Noun

argent m (ORB, broad)

1. silver
2. money
3. fortune, riches

References

• argent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• argent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu